Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.
Do justly, now.
Love mercy, now.
Walk humbly, now.
You are not obligated to complete the work,
but neither are you free to abandon it.
[Talmud]

Liturgical

Wheat

Footwashings are awkward in church, anachronistic, strangely intimate. But footwashings outside church are much harder. As footwashers in church we can at least be proud of our humility.

Ocean

You’re on the shore of the Pacific. It’s January in Oregon. If there has ever been a time when it seemed reasonable to expect bushes to burst into flame and start talking, this is not it.

Sparks

Job says that we are born to trouble as the sparks fly upward, and sometimes I think he’s being too hopeful.

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