Beneath the juniper…
Suffering is central
No one cares if you’ve had an abortion, if you’re struggling with your gender, or if you have an assault rifle at home.
Accept the invitation
We can grow in our awareness of just how influential we can be simply by being mindful.
A wrestling match
If you see your deep questions about life, about purpose, about suffering, about God as a wrestling match with God himself, how does this impact your view of the eventual outcome?
Put down the rocks and work!
We’ve got our rocks in our hands, and, oh, we want to throw them!
The addiction of sin
Sin is an addiction. It’s getting something we consider good in a way that’s wrong.
A strange power
It seems as if the Cross is the template we’re being urged to work from, not the Garden of Eden that preceded it.
We’re invited
Somehow, some way, I know I’m asked, invited — we all are — to bear our sorrows right along with him.
It’s personal
Suffering is personal, intensely so, and we’re never the only person present.