Don’t give in to discouragement……. If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about people’s opinions. Be obedient to truth. For with humble obedience, you will never be disturbed. - http://digitaldion.tumblr.com/post...
Our friends Andrew and Kerry gave us their jungle gym for Liam and Courtney to use! Their kids are a little older and weren’t using it much. How awesome is that? Courtney and Liam are loving it! Here are some pictures of Liam and Courts playing on the jungle gym. These photos were taken with my Leica M8 with the Voigtlander Color Skopar 50mm lens... - http://digitaldion.tumblr.com/post...
It is exceedingly strange that any follower of Jesus Christ should ever have needed to ask whether social involvement was their concern. Spiritual disciplines, like prayer and worship, create space for God to come and create transformation. Once transformed, the follower of God works to transform the world. - http://digitaldion.tumblr.com/post...
Take a look at this picture - I took it on a mountain bike ride just outside of Stellenbosch. I was riding along and saw what I thought was a pipe across the road. When it started moving I realized it was a snake! I think it is a Cobra, but I could be mistaken - it was about 1.5 meters long and puffed out as it rose. I sure am glad that I didn’t... - http://digitaldion.tumblr.com/post...
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild. - http://digitaldion.tumblr.com/post...
She tells the story of Jason, a fourteen year old boy with profound intellectual disabilities who was born with spina bifida. He has an enlarged head and, because his arms and legs have often been broken due to a bone disease, his limbs are twisted. He cannot feed himself and must be carefully bathed and diapered. He is cared for by Felicia... - http://digitaldion.tumblr.com/post...
Our church has been fighting during these years only for its self-preservation, as if that were an end in itself. It has become incapable of bringing the word of reconciliation and redemption to humankind and to the world. So the words we used before must lose their power, be silenced, and we can be Christians today in only two ways, through... - http://digitaldion.tumblr.com/post...
Christologies usually offered an image of Christ as a sublime abstraction. “Sublimity” as essential to an object of faith is obvious, but the “abstraction” is extremely dangerous. This abstraction is possible because the sublime title “Christ” is an adjective which only receives its specific value from the specificity of the noun, Jesus of... - http://digitaldion.tumblr.com/post...
It seems to me that, as a contemplative, I do not need to lock myself into solitude and lose all contact with the rest of the world; rather this poor world has a right to a place in my solitude. It is not enough for me to think of the apostolic value of prayer and penance; I also have to think in terms of a contemplative grasp of the political,... - http://digitaldion.tumblr.com/post...