fbpx
45.6 F
Spokane
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
HomeTagsLove

Tag: love

What’s Love Got to Do with It?

It’s that time of year — the “love” holiday is just around the corner — Valentine’s Day. I’ve never been a fan of this made-up excuse to entice (pressure?) people (mostly men) to spend silly amounts of money on silly things to prove just how loved their partner is. There are saccharine words and images on cards, pounds of candy, overpriced, crowded and understaffed restaurants selling a night of romance and ostentatious displays of flowers, worst of all, delivered to the partner’s place of work.

The Sunday the Christmas Tree Fell

My memory is fresh about the second Sunday of Advent, 1969. A young pastor, I was serving my first solo church appointment. Our congregation had decorated the sanctuary for Advent and Christmas, including a Christmas tree standing between the pulpit and the first row of pews.

Holding on in the letting go in a pandemic: Nature’s Door

Things are going as planned until the blow of a diagnosis one day. Is uncertainty the only certainty?

Love? Or something different?

Jesus calls us to love one another. How are you doing with that?

Navigating love’s labyrinth

We all want and deserve love. Finding it, keeping it and giving it is hard, though. Love is labyrinthine.

Ask an Eastern Orthodox Christian: How do you change an evil heart?

It is said that we are designed to be in relationship with one another by participating in the arena of communal love.

POEM: Transforming Gaze

As I gaze at you I open myself to you to gaze into my soul. I lay myself bare, like an empty bowl.

Must read