Posts with the tag “goodness”

Advent is good news because Jesus keeps arriving—here, now, in the middle of our actual lives. We steady ourselves in this reality: God with skin and bone, Eternity wrapped in humanity.St. Augustine wrote “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” That restlessness is familiar to us. And there’s something deeply comforting about a God who entered o...  Read More

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the prisoners, and recovery of sight to the blind, to liberate the oppressed, and to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.                                                                                          – Luke 4:18-19 (Jesus quoting Isaiah 61)God’s K...  Read More

A Prayer for Your Home:Holy, Holy, Holy,God of renewalAnd enduring hope,Be with us this day,In our waking and seeking,In our laughing and weeping.Keep us this day,In our trusting and doubting,In our coming and going,That You may be found,Here and now,And we may be found in You.Amen....  Read More