Because sometimes the most faithful thing we can do is simply stop striving long enough to remember that the world continues turning quite beautifully without our constant supervision.
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The Gospel According to the Borrowed Tomato
There is a particular kind of conversation that occurs regularly in neighbourhoods during the summer. It usually begins with someone standing at the front door holding vegetables. Now, this is already one of the great signs that Ordinary Time has fully arrived. Because in winter, people appear at your door carrying things like snow shovelsContinue reading “The Gospel According to the Borrowed Tomato”
Finding God Somewhere Around the Seventh Fairway
Because life has a remarkable way of keeping human beings grounded.
Moments of brilliance happen. Moments of embarrassment happen immediately afterward. And still the game continues.
You pick up your club. You laugh at yourself. You walk down the fairway with your friends. And grace quietly follows along beside you.
Because much of life unfolds exactly this way.
Mistakes are made. Plans go sideways.Perfect outcomes remain elusive.
And still, God gently invites us onward.
Learning to Sit Around the Fire Together
And relationships wounded deeply over long periods of history are not restored quickly simply because we wish them to be.
Healing requires truth. Humility. Listening. Presence.
It requires learning how to remain in conversation even when the work becomes uncomfortable or slow.
The Gospel According to the Backyard Bird Feeder
Because Ordinary Time teaches us to notice things again.
The movement of light through trees.The sound of wind before rain arrives. The astonishing variety of life unfolding quietly around us every single day whether we pause to observe it or not.
The Spiritual Importance of Changing Into Comfortable Clothes
Because Ordinary Time teaches us that holiness is not found only in great achievements.
It is also found in receiving ordinary life gratefully.
Even the quiet grace of becoming wonderfully comfortable at the end of a long week.
The Theology of the Shared Zucchini
Love multiplies when shared.
Kindness grows through giving.
Communities flourish when people stop treating blessings as private possessions and begin seeing them as gifts meant to circulate outward.
The Spirituality of the Morning Coffee
Pause for a moment. Sit quietly. Pray simply. Drink your coffee gratefully.
And remember that ordinary mornings may contain far more holiness than we often realize.
Even if coherent thought is still arriving gradually.
The Ministry of Holding the Door
In a world increasingly shaped by hurry and distraction, that small act begins to matter more than we realize.
The Quiet Spirituality of Watering the Plants
So perhaps this Monday, as you move through the ordinary responsibilities of life, take a moment to ask:
What in my life needs watering?
What relationships need attention?What part of my soul has been running dry? Where is God quietly inviting me back into rhythms that give life rather than merely consume it?
Because grace rarely arrives only in dramatic moments. More often, it comes quietly.