Worship Is An Act That Develops Feelings

Waiting Means Going About Our Assigned Tasks, Confident That God Will Provide The Meaning And The Conclusions.

It's Essential For Us To Develop An Imagination That Is Participatory. Art Is The Primary Way In Which This Happens. It's The Primary Way In Which We Become What We See Or Hear.

In High School I Was Very Much Involved In Poetry. You Cannot Read A Poem Quickly. There's Too Much Going On There. There Are Rhythms And Alliterations. You Have To Read Poetry Slow, Slow, Slow To Absorb It All.

The Latin Words Humus, Soil/earth, And Homo, Human Being, Have A Common Derivation, From Which We Also Get Our Word 'humble.' This Is The Genesis Origin Of Who We Are: Dust - Dust That The Lord God Used To Make Us A Human Being. If We Cultivate A Lively Sense Of Our Origin And Nurture A Sense Of Continuity With It, Who Knows, We May Also Acquire Humility.

Every Call To Worship Is A Call Into The Real World.... I Encounter Such Constant And Widespread Lying About Reality Each Day And Meet With Such Skilled And Systematic Distortion Of The Truth That I'm Always In Danger Of Losing My Grip On Reality. The Reality, Of Course, Is That God Is Sovereign And Christ Is Savior. The Reality Is That Prayer Is My Mother Tongue And The Eucharist My Basic Food. The Reality Is That Baptism, Not Myers-briggs, Defines Who I Am.