Morning Prayer by Henry T. Hodgkin
I ran across this prayer from Quaker Henry T. Hodgkin (1877-1933) in the most recent Friends Journal issue on Pendle Hill: Firm when all round me is in flux and seething Strong when the knees
Quotations
On Love, Meekness and Watching Over Each Other (Isaac Penington 1667)
My friend Vail Palmer recently recommended to me to read Isaac Pennington’s book of letters. While I was at George Fox University this week for a conference on discernment and leadership I took the
The Present Work of Atonement
Came across this quote today by one of my favorite theologians and it sums up in a really nice way some of what I talked about on Easter morning: “That Jesus died by crucifixion in
Prayers: Elizabeth Woolman
I’ve recently re-read John Woolman’s Journal and have found it to be very challenging and nurturing once again. If you haven’t read it yet I can’t recommend it enough (here is
Ancient Paths
Read this today and found it inspiring: It is of the new things that men tire – of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is
The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry
THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may
A Silencing Witness
Came across this quote today and found it to be particularly good in relationship to the text I’m reflecting on this week: Psalm 46. “In Witnessing, the role of talking is frequently overemphasized. Does
A ‘Missional’ Church Statement
Here’s one of my favorite missional church statements of all time: In the power of life and wisdom, and dread of the Lord God of life and heaven and earth, dwell;…and be a
“How to Be a Poet” by Wendell Berry
(to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skillmore of each than you haveinspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience
The End of Words
Quaker theologian Isaac Penington once wrote: And the end of words is to bring [humanity] to the knowledge of things beyond what words can utter. So, learn of the Lord to make a right use
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Thinking about this poem today: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Cirrcuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightening to the Children eased With
The Love of a Parent
I love this quote from Frederick Buechner: “‘He who loves has fifty woes … who loves none has no woe,’ said the Buddha, and it is true. To love another, as you love a child, is