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The best things in life are often sitting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
Today we celebrate the 170th Anniversary of our congregation’s founding.
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.
Patience is not just the ability to wait, it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.
It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation…and instead to revel in the mystery.
While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.
When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a