Josh is ripping it up down at this previous post about being like Jesus. Check it and jump into the conversation. Comment number 6.

Rachelle

I’ve been getting some adjustments made on my cat’s eyes glasses these days–sort of updating the prescription. You know how when you go to the eye doctor’s they slide that big machine in front of your eyes and flip back and forth between lenses? “Which one is clearer? Number one…or number two?” The thing is, the journey to becoming a new kind of Christian has less to do with ‘figuring it all out,’ and more to do with noticing when you’ve switched to the less-clearer lens option, then waiting for the big doc in the sky to flip you over to the better lens. At least, that’s my current theory.

Last week Randy Bolger, research assistant for the follow … {read more…}

A rabbi asked his students, When is it at dawn that one can tell the light from the darkness?

One student replied, When I can tell a goat from a donkey. No, answered the rabbi. Another said, When I can tell a palm tree from a fig. No, answered the rabbi again. Well, then what is the answer? his students pressed him.

Only when you look into the face of every man and every woman and see your brother and your sister, said the rabbi. Only then have you seen the light. All else is still darkness.

Everyone needs love - and thus a brother or a sister.

“Seeking Peace” by Johann Christoph Arnold.

This is a series … {read more…}

Today we will have our annual big open house, because unlike poor Jen Lemen who has to lug a bunch of stuff from her car to the park in the hot hot sun, we just have to walk down the street to see one of the top firework shows in the nation. (Lucky Us!)

As a kid, I loved the 4th of July. But as an adult I squirm a lot on our national holiday. I mean, we’ve been at war somewhere for most of my adult life. And I’ve lived to see any number of freedom-killing phenomenons like genocides and masacres where my freedom-loving nation has refused to take action — or waited until it was too … {read more…}

This fun piece was made by Fiona. She just did if for fun, without a particular lectio divina meditation. But to me it reminds me of my yoga instructor’s favorite phrase, “Namaste….the Light in me greets the Light in you.”

God Spoke: “Light!” and light appeared.
God saw that light was good and separated light from dark.
God named the light Day, he named the dark Night. It was evening, it was morning—Day one.

This is the second in a series of mini-art things created by the ThPM crew while doing lection divina on passages regarding light. This one is by ThPMer Mike LaJoie

The Word was first, the Word present to God, God present to the Word. The Word was God, in readiness for God from day one.

Everything was created through him; nothing — not one thing — came into being without him. What came into existence was Life, and the Life was Light to live by. The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness; the darkness couldn’t put it out.

The Life-Light was the real thing: every person entering Life he brings into the Light. He was in the world, the world was there through him and yet the world didn’t even notice. He came to his own people, but they didn’t want him. But whoever … {read more…}

This is my crew using thier v. powerful brains. I went away for a weekend and this is what they cooked up while I was gone. I thought it was interesting…maybe you might too….
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Mike Starts us Off:
I’ve been pondering a thought lately. Many people teach that to follow Jesus you need to be just like Jesus. Loving every person you come in contact with, sharing the “good news”, not SINNING!

My thought is; How is striving to be just like Jesus any different from striving to keep the Ten Commandments? We will always fall short no matter how hard we try for one or the other. This makes me think, is that really what we should be striving … {read more…}