God-sufficiency not self-sufficiency, Rebellion is a must Few things run more counter to the constant craving of my ego-self than personal powerlessness. Yet in my experience, nothing brings me more deep inner peace than letting go of power and control. It is the price that must be paid if I want to live a life […]
The pace of grace is a slow horse race Despite my various efforts each day, to live a life conformed to God’s code of radically inclusive love. I still experience the ravages of my ever-active ego. I am not free entirely from what a famous sober booze hound called Bill Wilson described as the bondage
Real heroes often arrive in shabby shoes I recall standing opposite an exceedingly ordinary looking frail old man one morning many years ago. We were both sorting apples on either side of a conveyor belt in an apple factory on a Kibbutz in Northern Israel. Given his advanced age, I wondered whether he might be
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Radically Redeeming Ordinariness I was born on the cusp of dawn, near back of beyond, on the silent banks of a lonesome lake where rainbow trout swim wild and free. Fed since birth of a strict diet of poetry and song about Ireland’s rebel cause. Weakness and surrender were simply nowhere to be found in
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