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"My heart is not proud, LORD, my eyes are not haughty;I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother;like a weaned child I am content.Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore." …
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I came across these comments by W. H. Auden in his foreword to Dag Hammarskjöld's Markings not too long ago. They brought to mind Auden's powerful two lines in "As I Walked Out One Evening": You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart. Auden is not only an astounding poet but an insightful …
We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. Only discord can come of the attempt to share solitude. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one's most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other …
The||40days|| journey of Lent has taken us along the road of acknowledging difficult things in our lives, turning from them, listening to God's voice, and then following Jesus, our Leader. This week, we continue the journey with a focus around the theme: 'live.' At times, it might be easy to mistake the journey of these …
With all the talk in social media about how many followers you have, it is easy to lose sight of what it really means to follow someone. This season of Lent, which we are marking with our ||40days|| journey, is really all about following Jesus. So this fifth week we take the next step after acknowledging, …
Matthew Erickson 