I Never Planned on This
/It’s been twelve days since this song came on and I pulled over in my car and wept.
Read MoreIt’s been twelve days since this song came on and I pulled over in my car and wept.
Read MoreWhen so much is not ok, it was wonderful to sit with Eddie Hamilton in his art studio and explore the question of what life worth living looks like in the midst of distractions and overwhelm.
Read MoreUnderstandably, we humans turn to the heavens to make sense of suffering. But it doesn’t always make sense, does it? Where have you heard yourself or others giving God credit for good stuff this week? What about the bad stuff? Do you just give God a pass on that?
Taking God seriously doesn’t have to mean minimizing people’s suffering or just not thinking so hard.
Do you see God as being part of the world with us or apart from the world? Even 3000 years ago there was a notion that God wasn’t distant and outside our existence but part of it. And all that effort humans spend appeasing God to avoid or explain suffering didn’t make sense. Wonder again at how the ways of God might be counterintuitive but they make sense as you read Psalm 50.
Listen to the full message from Not One Stone: If it doesn’t make sense, it doesn’t make sense.
Religion is the human packaging of a spiritual experience. At its best it points at something of inestimable value. But what happens when we build our religion up as THE thing?
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I love this opportunity to combine an incredible Vampire movie set in 1930s Mississippi Delta, historical and spiritual context and a dinner table of people to process and learn with!