The place God calls you is is to the place where your deep gladness and the world’s hunger meet. — Frederick Buechner. This morning during my meditation I focused on where is the place where God calls me. Buechner tries to give us a roadmap. Neither Google Maps nor does the “woman who must be obeyed”…
Entrusted In Our Care A Sufficiency
Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of mankind. — John Wesley In churches across the country discussions go on all the time…
An Assurance of Safety and a Temper of Peace.
“An assurance of safety and a temper of peace, and, in relation to others, a preponderance of loving affections.” — William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture XX. Followers of The Hubbell Pew know that I sometimes run across a phrase that I find fascinating and produces a flow of thought. Such was my feeling when I…
The Gift Of Wonder and Curiosity
There is a new book out on Leonardo De Vinci by Walter Isaacson. It is not a book to be devoured but savored. I was taken by the comparison with another subject of Isaacson’s, Albert Einstein. Their commonality is in their life-long gifts of wonder and curiosity. They both saw the ordinary in a different…
To Catch Him In Something He Might Say
When he went outside, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile toward him and to cross-examine him about many things, lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say. — Luke 11:53-54. Sounds like the scribes and Pharisees in Jesus’s day were much like today’s Washington press corp. Abe…