by JAC | Jul 7, 2018 | Diary, Fear, Love and Loss, Uncategorized
“The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a bullet in the side. A sense of the dramatic, of the tragic, of the infinite, has descended upon us, filling us with grief, but even above grief, wonder.”...
by JAC | Jun 13, 2018 | Acts of Hope, Mindfulness
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded...
by JAC | Jun 8, 2018 | Big Words, Simplicity, Uncategorized, Waiting
“This ordinary time is gifted in its quiet, marked passing Christ slips about calling and baptizing, sending and affirming, pouring his Spirit like water into broken cisterns, sealing cracks and filtering our senses, that we may savor the foolish...
by JAC | May 29, 2018 | Diary, Fear, Love and Loss, Poems, Uncategorized
To try to be brave is to be brave.” George MacDonald Today we are outside on our driveway blowing bubbles. It’s only May, and the leaves are freshly born and green, but already, now that they are here, they are foreboding of fall. I am safest in March,...
by JAC | May 8, 2018 | Love and Loss, Transformation
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anais Nin Yesterday I was reading an excerpt from a new book by an old pastor of mine. He played an important role in both my life and Dan’s. He baptized...
