do you know where your soul is?

"I AM in Midtown Manhattan, where drivers still play their car horns as if they were musical instruments and shouting in restaurants is sport.

"I am a long way from the warm breeze of voices I heard a week ago on Easter Sunday.
“Glorify your name,” the island women sang, as they swayed in a cut sandstone church. I was overwhelmed by a riot of color, an emotional swell that carried me to sea..."

Click here to continue reading this OP ed piece from the NY times by U2's Bono. His use of imagery is worth the read.

*oh me of little faith (but a little is enough)

easter as a season

I was on Facebook today and a friend noted that Easter is not a single festival day but a season of new life and re-creation in Christ. It made me think of the quote below and the gift we have been given- to participate in this season of newness and life that has been passed down from sinner/saint hybrids through the ages. Resurrection living was here before we were born and will move forward after we are gone. What will we do with it in the meantime that we call our life?



Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)

*saints and sinners- Palm Sunday and the approaching King

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Jesus and his rag tag band of misfit soldiers are laying seige to Jerusalem. Within a few days, they will betray, desert, and deny their commander leaving one casuality...an apparent defeat...then VICTORY.

saints and sinners- a new monastic order