Flashes of Light (by Amie)
My friend Amie at “Musings of a Social Concience” has written a great blog. She says it so well I want to quote it here in its entirety. Things have been getting to me lately. Corruption. Lexuses & Mercedes. Politics. Ignorance. They always get to me…but sometimes they become really heavy. The weight of a…
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Henry David Thoreau said, “Things do not change, we change.” As I sit beside the pounding, surf at Cannon Beach, Oregon I see truth in these words. Things like the ocean do not change. The ocean on this portion of the Oregon coast has been roiling, churning, and spraying the land mass for hundreds and…
Continue readingComfort
Doug Koop is a guy I know about through an online community. He is a great writer and writes for ChristianWeek.org. I wanted to share with you his words about comfort. On days like today I have an urge to go completely off the grid, to carveout a sustainable life in the country without being…
Continue readingThe Dumbfounding
My friend Jay Gurnett wrote an article in which he mentioned the poet Margaret Avison. I did a little research and learned that she is a Canadian poet who was given the Order of Canada for her poetry and yet not many Canadians have ever heard of her. I encourage you to grab a cup…
Continue readingDiscernment
Do not hastily ascribe things to God. Do not easily suppose dreams, voices, impressions, visions or revelations to be from God. They may be from Him. They may be from nature. They may be from the Devil. – John Wesley as quoted by J.K. Johnston in Why Christians Sin, Discovery House, 1992, p. 102. I…
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