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Aug 12, 2023

saving the world is not our job

Aug 12, 2023

And still, there is so much time to practice loving, which is the paradox, isn’t it? We must do what we are here to do–to step into and join the work calling our names without fear, knowing that our work is meaningful and valuable and that our work is not the material with which we craft our identity. That we don’t need to hurry up and save the world–that the world every day is being saved, already, and we are invited to participate in the work.

Aug 12, 2023

Mar 31, 2023

on transfiguration (for nanny)

Mar 31, 2023

And more often than not, these transfiguration moments are transformation moments, because that’s, miraculously, how God works. That the death and the life are all tied up together, that they’re both inherently pieces of the other. That in order to fall in love, some parts of you have to die. Or when you face the results of some unfortunate thing you might have done, God forms you into a person that looks a little bit more like Jesus, which is life.

Mar 31, 2023

Jan 6, 2023

manifesto (a new year’s reflection)

Jan 6, 2023

Am I willing to adventure into the making, even if I might slip? Am I willing to make a mess? Am I willing to scratch out an idea when I’d rather be asleep? Am I willing to wake up and watch the snowfall instead of sleeping through it? Am I willing to say the brave thing that would be easier left unsaid, and remain accountable to it? Am I willing to take up space for the view? Am I willing to try to do the thing that scares me? And to commit, for the rest of my life, to the telling about it?

Jan 6, 2023