Spiritual Direction
It seems to me God’s promise was always a place. A liberation born of location.
from This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
Lael Johnson added 6h ago
the focus on Jesus as a continuous human subject, born, maturing, dying.
from Christ the Heart of Creation by Rowan Williams
Lael Johnson added 6h ago
We are always the “stable” into which the Christ is born anew. All we can really do is keep our stable honest and humble, and the Christ will surely be born.
from Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent by Richard Rohr
Lael Johnson added 6h ago
" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "
Howard Thurmanfrom Aliveness: Reframing Productivity by Thomas Klaffke
Lael Johnson added 3d ago
- That’s not surprising, because forgiveness is probably the only human action that reveals three goodnesses simultaneously! When we forgive, we choose the goodness of others over their faults, we experience God’s goodness flowing through ourselves, and we also experience our own goodness in a way that surprises us. That is an awesome coming together... See more
from Three Goodnesses
Lael Johnson added 4d ago
- Forgiveness given and forgiveness received are always the pure work of uncreated grace. Such unearned and undeserved forgiveness is necessary to break down the quid pro quo world that I call meritocracy. Only when we experience undeserved love does this inward and outward flow begin to happen. Before that, we are dry, dead cisterns. Before that, we... See more
from Forgiveness and Freedom
Lael Johnson added 4d ago
- But grace is also contagious. An act of kindness inspires another act of kindness.... A single act of forgiveness can feel like it heals the world. Grace begets grace. Love rubs off on those who are loved....
from Restorative Justice
Lael Johnson added 4d ago
- Yet grace offers us another version of justice. Grace makes room ... for justice that is restorative, and dedicated to healing the wounds of injustice. But the grace thing is hard work. It takes faith—because it dares us to believe that not only can victims be healed, but so can the victimizers. It is not always easy to believe that love is more po... See more
from Restorative Justice
Lael Johnson added 4d ago
- We are told that we choose whose world we want to live in. We’ll choose wealth or God. We’ll choose violence or God. We’ll choose nationalism or God. We’ll choose racial hierarchy or God. Each case is an example of a different and incompatible operational system. One of those systems, if we live by it, binds us in endless struggle and violence that... See more
from Restorative Justice
Lael Johnson added 4d ago