Archive for January, 2009

On Love

"This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to
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Write, like food, to bring to life

I'm not Episcopalian. Sometimes I wish I were. Or maybe Catholic–just one of these denominations that makes a really big deal about the "sacrament," the "host," communion. I enjoy every once in a while focusing on the original meaning of the metaphor—remembering Christ's sacrifice in the physical symbols of His love. That we can remember the most beautiful fact of human existence–restoration–through the
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The place of excrement

This post is made from recycled, post-consumer content.       But love has pitched her mansion in     the place of excrement;     For nothing can be sole or whole     That has not been rent.                     –William Butler Yeats   You know those maps in the back of your Bible? They were mysterious treasure maps to me as a kid. I’d flip through all the places
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