In my early years, there was a saying on the refrigerator: “Fear knocked, faith answered, no one was there.” As I have journeyed through life, I have gone back to that adage numerous times. The fear part has always been with me since I grew up in a fear-based atmosphere. The faith part, however, has …
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To Witness as God Wants
Photo by Belinda Fewings “There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.” –Howard Thurman Being ‘in the world but not of it’ is a path Friends have sought to walk for generations, and I’m not quite sure …
Being of Service
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.” Anne Lamott …
Thoughts on Grace
“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” Anne Lamott Today it’s Anne Lamott’s quote on grace that is holding me, so here is what I have. It makes complete sense to me that through the mystery …
As Way Opens 