“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.”- C. S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm Timothy Willard concludes Chapter 16 of The Beauty Chasers as […]
“Hope does not grow in isolation. When we gather and lift each other up, our hope is stoked, our faith-coals are pushed together, igniting new flames. . . . If you think ‘church’ is about driving to a building or punching your spiritual time card or dressing up and looking the part of a put-together […]
“I wonder how many of us suffer from some sort of spiritual somnambulism. Our eyes are open, but the vacant look reveals an empty soul. At best we’re half awake. And just like the physical condition, we’re unaware of our spiritual condition until someone or something wakes us up.”- Mark Batterson “Your life is a […]
“We need those (thirty minutes of silence in heaven) moments of silence on this side of the space-time continuum too. It’s one way we nurture a sense of wonder. Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth-century French philosopher, went so far as to say, ‘All of man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a […]
“Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle.”- Anonymous “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.”- Isaiah 9:2 (KJV) “Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”- Tertullian During my childhood years, most people in my […]