I wrote a story for my kids. It’s fiction. It’s not systematic theology. It’s not a new book of the Bible. It’s flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.
Thank goodness there are women in our lives – that’s all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.
The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
I’m not an actual author but an accidental one.
It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
Nothing in life is ritual.
Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don’t misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence.
The ‘will to power and independence’ has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.
God’s voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.
You don’t play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.
I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.
Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
You cannot produce trust just like you cannot ‘do’ humility. It either is or is not.
So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.
Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.
He was sick of God and God’s religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn’t seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.
I don’t just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.
Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.
Did I hear God call me an idiot?
But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.