I’m not working with much these days. To be sure, I have plenty of food and toiletries. There is no end to creature comforts: chocolate, soda, chips, ice cream… I’ll stop but I could go on, go back to the store right now and pick up more. I am stocking up to stuff down my […]
We are predominately spirit, more spirit than flesh, more breath than earth. We are majority spirit, more than a number, made of a substance that cannot be counted. We are predominately us; there really is no “them,” no human being outside of our shared humanity. We are all strangers, all immigrants, all travelers passing through this world. […]
God cannot be captured in a painting. God made the painter and the earth is God’s canvas. God cannot be molded into a statue. God made the potter and we are His clay. God cannot be “found” in nature. God made the earth and God is supernatural. God cannot be described in words. God is […]
Race hurts. It hurts because it attacks the essence of who we are and it gets personal. It talks about our appearance, who our parents are, where we live and how we behave. It either says that it is wrong and bad or that it is good and better; either way, it places us at […]
“…then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” ~ Genesis 2.7, NRSV We all have the same ingredients: dust and breath. And in the end, when we are out of breath, we shall return to the […]