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”
The Long Beautiful Work of Belonging
And perhaps that is how belonging often happens.
Unexpectedly. Over years of shared prayers, coffee hours, griefs, laughter, committee meetings, casseroles, and ordinary faithfulness.
The Theology of Getting Out of the House
But I am increasingly convinced that one of the great losses of modern life is how easily we forget that we ourselves are creatures.
We belong not only to schedules and screens and errands. We belong to creation.
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 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.