So, one paragraph of Bonhoeffer answers some of my recent questions about prayer.
Prayer means nothing else but the readiness to appropriate the Word, and what is more, to let it speak to me in my personal situation, in my particular tasks, decisions, sins, and temptations. What can never enter the prayer of the community may [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Ich liebe Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
self-advertising
Posted in Uncategorized on January 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the spirit of American advertising culture, I am here to tell you that I’ve just had an article published on Ungrind Webzine. Now back to your regularly schedule programming.
reflections on indecision and joy…
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been pulling my journals out of the closet. Rereading the words, remembering when and why and where I wrote them, and reflecting on everything that’s happened since… it’s comforting to me.
I wrote these entries when I was wrestling with a difficult decision: stay in Germany for a second year, or more back to [...]
resolutions
Posted in Uncategorized on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Danielle showed me these, and I have decided to adopt them as my 2009 resolutions.
Clyde Kilby’s resolutions for mental health & for staying alive to God in nature:
1. At least once every day I shall look steadily up at the sky and remember that I, a consciousness with a conscience, am on a [...]
