Scott Gunn, an Episcopal priest, wrote this in a piece entitled God’s Ways are Not Our Ways, and it’s too good not to share with you. It’s based on Matthew 18:21-23, and a line that a choir member would turn and say to me and then laugh and hug me just before we processed into…

Scott Gunn, an Episcopal priest, wrote this in a piece entitled God’s Ways are Not Our Ways, and it’s too good not to share with you. It’s based on Matthew 18:21-23, and a line that a choir member would turn and say to me and then laugh and hug me just before we processed into…

Gracious God, help me to slow down and notice how you are making your joy complete within me no matter what I’m experiencing. Amen. —Disciplines 2026, p. 311

I obviously did not write and do not have the rights to this. The reality is, however, for many this is it —- I’m obsessed with where the edge is and how close that I can getI’ve been sitting on a nervous horse with a rope around my neckI can hear those footsteps closing in,…

With gratitude to Yuri Shvets and The Streets of Seattle: Street Photography — I’m not a religious person, but this bronze sculpture was a revelation to me. From a distance, it looks like a lonely, homeless figure lying on a bench. But as you get closer, you notice that his feet are somehow deformed. |And…

Oh Lord our God, when we fear the unknown, help us to recognize your presence and that with you all things are possible. —Disciplines 2026, p. 264

Holy God, help me to live into the transformation and renewal of my soul that you have already begun. Amen. —Disciplines 2026, p. 302

COPIED from wsj.com yesterday — Last year I got off of social media, and it was calming. But also there’d be times when my teammates would talk about something and I’d be like, “Wait, what’s going on?” You feel like you’re disconnected from the world.— to which you say…?

Busy Equals Productive? Let’s get back to this. For today, a quick check-in with our Lord and ourselves — Am I tangled up in busyness today?