Category: Quotations

Worth the risk

“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must… Read More

Food for thought: Disillusionment & Community

Just a few words to chew on tonight as we seek what it means to live in community with one another. {Taken from Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.} Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it… Read More

Food for thought: The snail and the rose-bush

Jeff and I have been reading from a book of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales at night. Some of the stories are just plain strange, but quite a few have deep truths that nestle beneath the strangeness. An… Read More

Sunday Snapshot: Covered Anew

I know I have been mighty silent of late…much on the mind and heart that at the right time will be shared. But today the wise pleas of Walter Brueggemann accompanied by the scenery I awoke to earlier this week…. Read More

Food for thought

Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead…. Read More

Food for thought

There it is, the secret of joy’s flame: Humbly let go. Let go of trying to do, let go of trying to control…let go of my own way, let go of my own fears. Let God blow His… Read More