Brave, Beautiful, and Good Things – Discussion Guide
Free group discussion guide on the kind of compassion that could ignite a spiritual revolution with Rainn Wilson and Kate Bowler.
a blessing when you can’t fake it (or make it?)
I have been propped up on my toes, peering over fences but mostly staring at the peeling paint. Hoping has become longing. Wanting has become needing. I can see love everywhere but here. There is a naturalness to the way other people experience their joys popping up like tender, spring grasses. The earth, it seems,…
a blessing for when things don’t add up
Blessed are you who say:This did not add up.I had hoped these choices I made,the life I tried so hard to pick,would add up to somethingMeaningful. But now I’m left without many choices at all. Left wondering… did I pick right?Did I waste my days?What should I have done differently? This limited life is what…
For Chaplains
As leaders of faith you are often called to enter into the holy space of lives coming undone, such as the waiting room, the hospital room, or even the dreaded family rooms. You are so brave to enter into these spaces, realizing you may be the only person who enters into this room who has no agenda, no answers to give, no blood to take, no updates to share. You are the courageous one entering into the chaos bringing only love and compassion. This is the work of a Chaplain.
a blessing for telling the truth
Blessed are you, resisting the urge to reframe. You who are sick and tired of silver linings. Blessed are you, speaking honestly about what is right in front of you: This is hard. Things might not get better. This really has gone horribly. There may not be a different way. You who risk honesty, especially…
for the ones who choose to break their hearts for ours
“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be take seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.” – Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination Blessed are you who let your heart break. You don’t…
a blessing for keeping your heart soft when everything is broken
Blessed are you who see it all now.The terrible, beautiful truth that our world,our lives seem irreparably broken. And you can’t unsee it.The hungry kid. The exhausted mom.The woman who wonders if any of this is worth it.The loneliness and despair. Blessed are you who glimpse reality and don’t turn away.This kind of seeing comes…
a blessing for Palm Sunday
Jesus, from that mountainhigh among the olive trees,it would have been an easy walkdown to the city,to Jerusalem, which lay below. So why choose to make your wayon a donkey,on an everyday beast of burden,your feet almost dragging on the ground?And who are these people running, bending low,to spread their precious cloakson the road before…
for living without control
God, I come to you as I am.It is all I have, really.And the next one I’m conscious ofwill be the same.I can feel the way I move,moment to moment,without the comfort of “solutions.” It seems wild to me now how I imaginedany once-and-for-all cure for this,or a master plan to ensure thingswill work out.But,…
Suspicious of Joy – Discussion Guide
Free group discussion guide on finding hope and joy in the midst of difficulties with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Kate Bowler.
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