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Writing in my journal this morning, I had a few questions: What/where are my longings? Can I feel them? Name them? Will I find them underneath and in between all the should-ings and the must-ings? Why pay attention to them? Indeed. Why pay attention? For one thing, I can’t help it — it is in…

The worst thing of all would be for the Messiah to be born in Metropolitan Richmond this December and for all of us to miss it. Yet one wonders how in the world we could ever see it. For one thing, we are so fragmented, so without a single center, that wherever it was, most…

There is another dimension. It is not the third dimension. It is not the fourth, or the fifth dimension. It does violence to this dimension, in a sense, to give it a number. This is the dimension where number is nonexistent. In the first two or three dimensions, number is required and defining. Length, width,…

The purpose of life is most of all in what God does, secondly in what we do together, and least of all in what we do as our own achievement. Our American individualism turns those three things around. People search mightily for achievement on their own, making it the first goal, and then are stunned…

The search for the treasures of of heaven is a daily one. That is a part of its character. There is nothing static about it. It is a daily commitment, a daily exploration, a daily mystery, a daily prayer. “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where…

What’s the deal with stewardship? It’s an interesting word. Steward. Sometimes, it’s a noun. Less often, it’s a verb. How does this ancient concept apply to lives lived in this millennium? As a concept, should it apply to me as I work through my discernment? How? It’s an interesting idea. It involves action without ownership….