Following Jesus in rejecting empire
12th Century Trinity Fresco on Chapel Ceiling, Urschalling, Upper Bavaria Is. 66:12-13 For this is what the Lord says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees. As a mother comforts her child, so will I…
The Bible mentions worship 254 times in the New International version. It mentions worship 347 times. But the word eat appears 623 times. I love food. I love the look of it, and I love the smell of it. I love the feel of food inside my mouth: The sensation as my molars press down…
I have tinnitus – ringing of the ears. I usually am not aware of the high-pitched hum at the upper end of the audible range until all is quiet. Like when I am lie down for the night, or am by myself in the snow-covered woods, far from the noise of our frenetic life. Snow…