Ah, the wars they will be fought again. The holy dove, she will be caught again, bought and sold, and bought again… — Leonard Cohen. Amid a war pulverized Gaza, on a dusty road in soul searing heat, emerges a barefoot tattered and torn young girl, maybe seven or eight years old. Laid across her […]
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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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