“Christians who can no longer listen to one another will soon no longer be listening to God either; they will always be talking even in the presence of God.” Bonhoeffer, Life Together

Children’s Pastors learning from each other and encouraging each other @Youthfront #TheologicalTurn in #ChildrensMinistry

"Focus is saying no to good ideas." Sam Altman

It has been a long day. Vicki is out of surgery. No complications, and everything went according to plan. She’s in quite a bit of pain. We are grateful for the outpouring of prayers and encouragement.

After a consultation with Vicki’s Cardiologist Surgeon, she has had her surgery moved up a month to tomorrow. Pray 🙏 all goes well. For an update on her condition, see my Facebook.

“Time has become instrumentalized, and as a result we have taught ourselves to treat the present primarily as a waiting room in which to plan for—and, yes, optimize—the future.” theatlantic.com/author/ian-b…

“God of time and eternity, if I love thee for hope of heaven, then deny me heaven; if I love thee for fear of hell, then give me hell; but if I love thee for thyself alone, then give me thyself alone.” Jane Hirshfield’s translation of Rabi’a’s prayer as quoted above by Sam Wells

King Family Life Update facebook.com/share/p/1GHWgvb…

“Any attack even on the least of these is an attack on Christ, who took the form of humanity, and in His own Person, restored the image of God in all that bears a human form.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The eternal God becomes what he most loves on earth – a child. But this is no sweet sentimentality on God’s part: If God loves the childlike, it is because they are empty enough to receive what God wants to give.” Erasmo Leiva-Merikakas, The Way of the Disciple

“Surely one of the greatest problems of our times is that we have become so nonchalant about the Lord of the universe.” Marva Dawn, A Royal Waste of Time

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." Maya Angelou

“The full Christ is not simply the person we come to know vicariously through the text of the Gospel, but that person as we encounter him fully alive in the Word and Sacrament and Body of the Church.” Erasmo Leiva-Merikakas

One of the challenging things about being a Christian in the Secular Age, where personally shaped identity, success, power, & happiness are the cultural values, is the theological truth that we can’t save ourselves, we need Jesus Christ to become the persons we were created to be

“Tears are perhaps the most rejuvenating and re-creating water of all, the evidence that I have allowed GRACE to melt the ice at the center of my being, as Leon Bloy says, strikingly, where there are tears, there is the Holy Spirit, because the Spirit of God is always, “hovering over the waters.” Leiva-Merikakis, The Way of the Disciple

“In preindustrial times most people’s jobs made them strong. Now if you want to be strong, you work out. So there are still strong people, but only those who choose to be. It will be the same with writing. There will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be.”P Graham

"Life is not what happens to you, but how you interpret what happens to you." Alfred Adler

“When God became flesh in Jesus Christ, the whole human race recovered the dignity of the image of God.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer #bonhoeffer

“The end for which you were created is that by prizing all that God hath done, you may enjoy yourself and God in blessedness.” Thomas Traherne

Celebrated, after FIFA Fan Fest and Cheryl Crow, at the Plaza with the Argentinians. Festive. #worldcup #messi #kansascity

WITH AND FOR OTHERS The messages evoke some of the universal truths and elements expressed by Pope Leo XIV on June 10. "Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together," he wrote. "Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney." from KC Star