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Mary takes us on her journey with God from the personal to the communal. She has “favor” and is “blessed,” but she goes farther.
Mary takes us on her journey with God from the personal to the communal. She has “favor” and is “blessed,” but she goes farther.
We need more folks like John. Maybe you’re one? People who refuse to participate in the coverup, the blind eye, the euphemisms and the polite hostility.
Change theory is a strategy, set of actions, and conditions to facilitate change. Each year, corporations and non-profit organizations alike invest multiple meeting hours and millions of dollars in an attempt to facilitate change.
To give thanks to God is a sublime act. It is a defiant lifestyle. A thankful life demonstrates that we understand the balance of our agency and our interdependence- our strength and our vulnerability.
We are tragically driven by fear, but fear in no way motivates His perspective or actions. “So you are a King?” Pilate asked Jesus. We say Yes! He is our King!
To be a witness is the power to increase the celebrity of Jesus by doing what Jesus did wherever you are. But not only that, it’s power to trust God. It’s power to share your story as a medicine for someone else’s malady.
To be a witness is the perfect adaptive approach to the most pernicious problems we face as a species. To be a witness is the radical democratization of leadership delivered through your personal and authentic experience of Jesus in your life.
As Dorothy Day has said, “I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.” The gap Jesus was identifying that day is our ability to say we love God while hating or being indifferent to those God loves.
Jesus was not a Christian! And, many he encountered and blessed were not observant Jews. Still Jesus knows faith when he sees and hears it.
Though our suffering shakes us to our core, the answer out of the “whirlwind” of our circumstances is that God is Almighty! And, just because our suffering is not relieved on our timetable does not mean God is lacking in power.