Friday, May 4, 2012

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.  -Orson Welles

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Lose Your Mind!

"As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motion of your mind,
lose it.  Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go.  Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection." --Wendell Berry, American farmer


Quoted in Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne et al.  Zondervan (Grand Rapids, Michigan) 2010.

God Meets Our Needs in Two Ways...

"God can meet our needs in two ways,
1. He can give us what we need; or
2. He can set us free from what we consider a need." --Hristo Kulichev, former persecuted Christian from Bulgaria

Hristo Kulichev shares how, in prison, God didn't give him more bread, though what they were given wasn't nearly enough.  "But he set me free from the feeling of hunger.  I always felt satisfied.  I never felt hungry--and bread and salt turned out to be a delicious meal for me."


from Day by Day with the Persecuted Church Compiled by Jan Pit for Open Doors International. Sovereign World Ltd.(Lancaster, England) 2009.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Compassion and Justice

"Mr. al-Megrahi did not show his victims any comfort or compassion … but that alone is not a reason for us to deny compassion to him and his family in his final days." —Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill


Al-Megrahi, former Libyan secret service agent who has prostrate cancer and only three months left to live, "is the only person ever convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988." —CBC News

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Happiness and Goodness

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
- Bertrand Russell

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Dead People Live

Jesus did not come to make bad people good. He came to make dead people live.

--Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Honesty vs. Abandonment

"When we are honest with God, when our souls have been laid bare, and we experience his acceptance, the fear of abandonment subsides."



James Bryan Smith. Embracing the Love of God: The Path and Promise of Christian Life. HarperSanFransico: New York (1995). p.38