What is the difference between dying to ourselves and dying inside?
When we’re in difficult circumstances or when something difficult is asked of us, it seems like something in us will die no matter what. We cannot have everything we want to have, and so something dies. For some people, this is life-giving and [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Dying to self vs. dying inside
Posted in Becoming on February 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Waiting on the Lord
Posted in Becoming on February 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What exactly does it mean to wait on God?
Dave and I are playing the waiting game. I think we’re both ok with it. There aren’t a lot of other options for us (except to say, “If we have to wait, then we don’t want it,” which just isn’t true). It’s hard, though, [...]
Ash Wednesday
Posted in Becoming, Lent on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today we die, so that we may rise again with Christ on Easter morn.
“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
This is more than uncomfortable; it’s intolerable.
Dust is nothing. It scatters in the smallest breeze, is tracked over the carpet without us noticing, and covers the surfaces we don’t see and [...]
Anglicanism in America, II
Posted in Anglicanism on February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things this blog will chronicle is my reaction to what is going on in the Anglican church. I should give a history of this here, and at some point I will, but life is crazy right now, and I don’t have that long of a break from work. Maybe this [...]
Anglicanism in America
Posted in Anglicanism on February 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
*These are very early, very initial musings. Take them as such.
I fear for my church. I love my church, but I fear for it.
The word from Lambeth seems to be (if I’m reading the communique and the commentary on it right), that a group is going to draw up a covenant, which each church in [...]
Breaking News…
Posted in Sharing on February 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For the latest in Dave’s and my journey, check out my other blog. I couldn’t decide if it belonged there or here, and I refuse to crosspost on my own blogs. That WOULD be evil.
Love is of God
Posted in Love on February 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Today, I can’t help but think about love.
Ok, that’s a little cheesy, but [...]
Insights from Bono?
Posted in Sharing on February 14, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Over a year ago (maybe 2), World magazine ran a short excerpt from Michka Assayas’s book, Bono in Conversation. In the part of the interview included in the article, Assayas asks Bono about his Christianity. Bono explains it. Assayas pushes him on it. Bono sticks to his guns.
Then, in a comment that isn’t even a [...]
Lent before Lent
Posted in Lent on February 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There’s something about Lent that makes me want to forget that it’s Lent. Or that Lent is even coming.
Every single year, I figure out that Lent is coming about a week or 10 days before it actually arrives. Then, I manage to forget about it entirely until Maundy Tuesday, when I either decide frantically what [...]
Forgiveness and ourselves
Posted in Forgiveness on February 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been reading a book about forgiveness lately (The Forgiving Self by Robert Karen), mostly because I’ve heard about one of the author’s other books but it’s checked out of the Biola library until May, and this was the only one left. Anyway, my reading triggered a thought that I’ve had before, in different ways, [...]
