Sublime

daily encounters large and small, we are challenged to remember that our animating commitment is to love others, and that our personal mandate is to grow in love.

without making ourselves miserable in the process through overload, overwhelm, and hard-to-keep-up systems.

Live the Psalms by Practicing Celebration

If I were to sum up what faith asks us to be, I would say: a healing presence. That is the common factor among the many different lives that have inspired me.

For reflection: 2 Chronicles 15:8–15 Authority exercised with humility and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live. —from ”Membership,” The Weight of Glory

and eloquently. He knows that God is always with him. He puts first things first—not the opinions of others but his relationship with his father.

I had grieved His heart by ignoring His heart. I had ignored His heart by forgetting those who were far from Him.

Gorman says beautifully, “For Paul, to be in Christ is to be a living exegesis of this narrative of Christ, a new performance of the original drama of exaltation following humiliation, of humiliation as the voluntary renunciation of rights and selfish gain in order to serve and obey.”26

What makes the pastoral (or better, the ministerial) remain significant, even up against these transitions, is its ability to host an encounter with personhood. It appears, both in lived experience and the tradition, that divine action comes in and through personhood.