Silence is a frightening thing

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

The name of the room is Remember—the room where with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived.”

You Say, a musical offering by Lauren Daigle, performed and recorded by Sakhan Warren, Olin Johannessen, Ashley Wade, and Zach Jagentenfl.

In our too-much-exodus days,
we pray especially for all
who have fled their homes,
in these and so many other
fires, storms, floods,
in earthquake and warfare.

As St. John’s physically connects its home of spiritual worship with its place of more “family” togetherness let’s all be mindful of our world and strive…really strive…for global human connectedness.

It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets.

Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts, you are either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

Love is the last thing we need to ration in this world.

Beside the still waters, I will lay my body down,

“Summer rushes in on the heels of spring, eager to take her turn; and then she dances with wild abandon. But the time soon comes when she gratefully falls, exhausted and sated, into the auburn arms of autumn.”

“We are to fear, love, and trust God above anything else.” As it turns out, nothing else will satisfy.

Instead let this be your only armor:
that you shine with light,

These words aren’t just powerful for children to hear, but for adults, too. Knowing them, keeping them in our hearts and on our lips, is an eye-opening reminder of how our lives can be lived.

We have enough. We are enough.