
Prayer: Not Just for the Monks
Prayer allows us to sit with the God of love, transforming our frustrations into opportunities to show love, mercy, and grace. It changes everything.
Prayer allows us to sit with the God of love, transforming our frustrations into opportunities to show love, mercy, and grace. It changes everything.
I can imagine Jesus using his teaching voice to explain this love... Our teacher knows that we, like little children, learn best through stories.
Our relationship with God, our willingness to live lives of love and peace in relationship, our identity as a new creation, that is indeed everything.
Following Christ is a demanding task. This Christian life is not an intellectual assent to creeds nor a box checked. It is a full life transformation.
We must find ways to live and advocate for love in our own families, in our communities, in our nation, and in our world that so desperately needs it.
We are invited as followers of Christ to change the world, to bring forth the kingdom of God in our daily lives. And we can start doing it today.
God’s presence is available and with us today, comforting us, teaching us, reminding us, shaping us, to make this all more like the Kingdom of God.
Perfect submission, all is at rest; I in my Savior am happy and blest, watching and waiting, looking above, filled with his mercy, lost in his love.
We may not always love particularly well, but when we keep love as our guide, we trust that in so doing we are being formed by it all along the way.
Jesus commands us to love one another here in the church because it is our example that makes Christ real for the world to see.
He met Paul and Peter where they were, and he invited them to the way of love, both to be loved and to love others. He calls us just the same.
We do our best to live the gospel, and that is how we share the truth of the resurrection with others, not with what we say but with who we are.