Tag: grace

Right Where I Am

By Ann O’Malley I’m standing at the sink brushing my teeth before bed when I hear an ominous sound.  Drip. Drip. Drip. Drip.  Uh-oh.  I poke my head through the doorway into the other half of the bathroom, the part…

Honoring Courage: MLK

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” “Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies.’  It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power.  And there is a…

opening up to beauty

…opening up to beauty feels like risk and there are days when it feels like betrayal to look for joy in such small pieces of the world when that joy co-exists with such pain, but I have settled somewhere in…

With Every Spiritual Blessing

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,  just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless…