Love is the weakest To find love we first must die Dying to ourselves Dying to make room For love to enter our heart To Love is to die But faced with this death For a small chance to love you I would die always
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When our dull wits had so declined
“The Invisible Seen” When our dull wits had so declined as to set us mid the squalor of the merely sensible creation, the Very God consented to become a body of His own, that He as one among us might gather our dim senses to Himself, and manifest through such incommensurate occasion that He is…
Death as A Mode Of Living
…just like Alcoholics Anonymous is the place where you go when you’ve got dependence on alcohol, the community of believers should be the place you go because you’ve got a dependency on religion. …and this for me is the good news of Christianity. It’s not that we repress our anxieties and we “believe” in God…
Communion in the agony of Christ
“The Christian hope that is “not seen” is a communion in the agony of Christ. It is the identification of our own agonia with the agonia of the God Who emptied himself and became obedient unto death. It is the acceptance of life in the midst of death, not because we have courage, or light,…
The Beginning of Wisdom
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom –Psalm 111:10 Last night at Valley Mosaic we enjoyed a great discussion about fear. The discussion centered on the above quoted verse from Psalm 111. The conversation ranged from defining what fear means to each of us, to speculating on what the Bible means when…
Baseball, Medicine, Pain and Death
A few family members and I had an impassive conversation the other day concerning why it is that entertainers and professional athletes often make 10x the amount of money that health professionals make. Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees made $33,000,000 in 2009, while the average salary for an Emergency Room Physician was $231,368–that…