The Greatest of These

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." - 1 Cor 13:13

Faith means saying “Thy will be done!” and meaning it.

Hope means living like the resurrection is true.

Love means dying to yourself that others might have life.

Quotable: Practical Atheism

from Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight by Norman Wirzba

"Especially in a time of widely professed belief in God, we need to acknowledge that the patterns of our dominant culture pronounce and encourage practical atheism. In a time of practical atheism people are cut off from deep relationships with others, which means that we are cut off from God's life-giving and life-sustaining ways at work in those relationships. Having lost our contact with God, we turn to religious beliefs or pious sentiments that are forced, hollow, or merely ornamental. Though we desperately search form moments of peace and joy, we do not find them, for the structures of our living keep us trapped within a graceless world of our own or someone else's devising."

Poetry: The Glory of the Garden

by Rudyard Kipling, 1911

There's not a pair of legs so thin,
there's not a head so thick,
There's not a hand so weak and white,
nor yet a heart so sick,
But it can find some needful job,
that's crying to be done,
For the Glory of the Garden
glorifieth everyone.