What the elders need more of in their lives is the young; and what the young need more of in their lives are the elders.
We forget that we are the burning bush—ordinary human beings illuminated with the fiery love of God.
I see in this burning bush the great mystery of holiness: ordinary human beings filled with the supernatural fire of the Holy Spirit.
Sometimes it takes a long season in the wilderness to learn the difference between one’s importance and their worth.
When you are doing your best to follow Jesus and it feels like you are exiled from your life, you are not being punished. You are being prepared.
When the will of God is not carried out according to the ways of God, it leads to the wilderness of God.
This is how we get from Plan B back to Plan A: surrender.
Plan A is always more creative, always more costly, always more risky, and always more faith-full.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Jesus doesn’t say apart from him, we can’t do religious things very well. He says apart from him, we can do nothing.
The power of a good poem is never the metaphor, but the message the metaphor leads you to.
