“So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.” ~Malachi 3.18 We differ in span and reach but this does not measure our humanity. We have hair and eyes and skin just the same but their colors do not […]
The human being is no mystery. There are witnesses to our beginning and our end, persons who have gone before us and who will follow, persons to bring us into the world and to carry us out of it. Our ignorance of each other does not mean that we are not known or able to […]
“For on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you; from all of your sins you will be clean before the Lord.” ~ Leviticus 16.30 “For the life of the creature is in the blood and I have appointed it to you to make atonement on the altar for your lives, since […]
“Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.” ~ Euripides “He who covers and forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats or harps on a matter separates even close friends.” ~ Proverb 17.9 The Christian life begins with forgiveness. It is the entryway to God. We come to know God through the reconciliatory […]
“Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.” ~Frederick Buechner Dorothy Ranaghan says that Christian spirituality is “a plan, a means, an attempt to find a way of living every day in growing union with God.” The Christian life is […]