When you say nothing at all
May you feel God’s love even when He seems to “say nothing at all.”
Patient Trust - The Slow Work of God
Often, we are unaware of God working in our lives, like the ocean under the rocks.
Stop wanting things (including people) to be different.
Forgiveness-stopping wanting things/people to be different.
An Axe for the Frozen Sea by Ben Palpant
18 poets, 18 interviews ending with one of their poems. I couldn’t stop underlining. Try it, even if you aren’t sure you like poetry. A quick easy read.
Corpus Christi: Three Sonnets on Communion by Malcolm Guite
Three sonnets by Malcolm Guite about communion. I love the play on words he uses, and the way each poem goes in a circle to an ending that reveals the crucial word (Word).
Undaunted Joy | The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight by Shemaiah Gonzalez
A book of joy—the joy of God’s love.
You take good care of her.
You are the object of God’s love in addition to its subject. Jesus tells you to love others AND he tells others to love you.
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
What a great novel! It reminds me a little bit of Catcher in the Rye but the main character is an Iranian-American drug and alcohol addict trying to figure out how to make his life and death matter. Funny, sad, sweet, bittersweet, odd, cool, all the things.
