Month: May 2018

No safe place

Post author By dw
Post date May 30, 2018
2 Comments on No safe place

sliver of light falling on hair of woman in the dark

Those who believe in God can never in a way be sure of him again. Once they have seen him in a stable, they can never be sure where he will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation he will descend in his wild pursuit of humankind…this means that we are never safe, that there is no place where we can hide from God, no place where we are safe from his power to break in two and recreate the human heart.

Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons, “The Face in the Sky”

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Poetry

Walking with grief

In Common

So many grieving
Damage recent and long past
Near and far away

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For those of us who grieve, Andy Raine of the Northumbria Community has written,

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Other Writings

The good thing about weakness

Post author By dw
Post date May 16, 2018
1 Comment on The good thing about weakness

We will see that we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us.

— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island