Looking down from the cross
Jesus cried out “Why have you forsaken me?” but there was more to what he said than we might know.
It’s always something.
Just like I’ve always heard, every time I turn around something new comes up.
Listening to shame | Brené Brown
Link to the video of the talk, and the transcript. So much muchness.
I was today years old
Have you heard people say “I was today years old when I learned…”? I thought of that when I saw the first line of this poem by e.e. cummings.
"It is only kindness that makes sense anymore."
Kindness, a poem by Naomi Shahib Nye, reminds us that kindness is God in us and others. What stories of kindness do you have?
Spiritual Exercises in Jayville by Joe Hoover
And I walk by the duck on the way to pray in front of Mary. To Jesus through Mary past Duck.
Possible Answers to Prayer by Scott Cairns
…duly noted…inadvertent entertainment value…intermittent concern for the sick…
No, that’s not fraud, that’s my remodel
Money is flowing like water. Decisions, decisions, decisions.
That Powerlessness You Feel Is Called ‘Moral Distress’
Powerlessness is at the heart of moral distress. It is the feeling that we have had to, or must seriously, compromise ourselves or something we hold dear due to external forces seemingly beyond our control. It is also the sense that others don’t grasp a moral significance or moral imperative that is clear to us. Moral distress is what results from repeatedly not having our values respected, either individually or collectively.