REMEMBER AND WAIT

The past and the future. Memory and expectation. Remember and hope. Remember and wait. Wait for him whose face we all of us know because somewhere in the past we have faintly seen it, whose life we all of us thirst for because somewhere in the past we have seen it lived, have maybe even had moments of living it ourselves. Remember him who himself remembers us as he promised to remember the thief who died beside him. To have faith is to remember and wait, and to wait in hope is to have what we hope for already begin to come true in us through our hoping. Praise him.
- Frederick Buechner

- first published in A Room Called Remember and then later in Secrets in the Dark

TOMORROW

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday! And remember...when you get to tomorrow, God has already been there. – John Yoder

THE CHURCH

Church is a good place to practice being with people with whom you disagree, which is to say, a good place to practice being human. – Rachel Held Evans

THE REALITY OF THE RESURRECTION

We are not asked to believe the doctrine of the Resurrection. We are asked to meet this person raised from the dead. – Lloyd Olgilvie