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We are made to be. We are finely crafted and carefully honed toward our own uniqueness. we might get tired of who we are, who we were, or even,  who we are becoming, but, that’s all we have to be and to do.

The disciples wanted Jesus to take an easier way. They would have preferred a shorter way. He took the long and hard way.

  Has the cross been banned or is it just invisible?   There are lots of protests for and against the cross as a symbol of Christianity being displayed in public places – as a symbol, or even as a decoration. It made me think.    A question was, "Just where is the cross lately?"…

    We have not forgotten what happened on September 11 in our recent past. I remember where I was when the first hint of news came across the wave via NPR. I remember my thoughts.' I remember how we came together and put our differences aside. As Randy Sparks wrote in a song, "On…

Sometimes making the best of things is the ultimate statement of defiance and taking charge.

Where we place our sympathy, empathy, and compassion must never be an ideological issue. A politic of compassion rejects that dichotomy.

Some sought it and some fought it.

The call to repentance is joyful good news that there is a possibility and help for real change.

One person’s celebration is another person’s misery.

  JESUS MAFA. Jesus cures the man born blind, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.     There were once two blind men. One could see enough with his heart to know where he could find help.   The other could see with his eyes, but his…