… watching for the brushstrokes of God
The Bible is full of Making activities. I have come to believe that unless we are making something, we cannot know the depth of God’s being and God’s grace permeating our lives and God’s Creation. ~ Makoto Fujimura
How do you discover this depth?
“Once people feel nourished and refreshed, they cannot help but be kind; just so, the world aches for the generosity of a well-rested people.“ ~ Wayne Muller
What refreshes you?
“It’s important to note that God does not obliterate the darkness; rather, God names it and limits it—puts boundaries on it. The boundary is the light.” ~ Lisa Sharon Harper
How do you notice boundaries?
“Over and over we must know that the real target of evil is not destruction of the body, the reduction of rubble of cities; the real target of evil is to corrupt the spirit of man and to give his soul the contagion of inner disintegration… Therefore the evil in the world around us must not be allowed to move from without to within.” ~ Howard Thurman
How do you keep alive a sensitivity to the Spirit?
Sometimes there are no words in the face of fear and despair.
How does one companion in such a time as this?
Adrift, and without
no sense of direction, we’re
lost, an obscured fog. Linda J. Wolff
With the Eyes of the Heart 