Listen to Brennan Manning in The Furious Longing of God… How is it then that we’ve come to imagine that Christianity consists primarily in what we do for God? How has this come to be the good news of Jesus? Is the kingdom that He proclaimed to be nothing more than a community of men and women … Continue reading »
This morning, I woke up with a sense that God had drawn near to me while I was still asleep. The Psalms describe this, in fact. Listen to this from Psalm 42:8… By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me – a prayer to the God of my life. … Continue reading »
Today I said ‘I love you’ to two people who were neither my husband nor my family. Now, just to clear up any confusion, I did also tell my husband this morning that I love him! But right now my focus is on those other two. You see, I am not given to affectation. I … Continue reading »
I have loved the simplicity of these words from Brennan Manning in Abba’s Child this week: I believe that the night in the Upper Room was the defining moment of John’s life. Some sixty years after Christ’s resurrection, the apostle – like an old gold miner panning the stream of his memories – recalled all … Continue reading »
When the love of God is in me, God is able to love you through me and you are able to love God through me. If my soul were closed to that love, God’s love for you and your love for God and God’s love for himself in you and me would be denied the … Continue reading »
