Apartment Psalms Happy Sheep
-
- Religion & Spirituality
A story about a God of broad places. The pursuit of God when we stray like sheep, when we forget our first love and go after cisterns that do not hold water. His relentless faithfulness, amidst our frailties.
-
S2 08: Life is in love with us
8 February 2015 - Much has happened in a year...
-
S2 07: First ray of summer
Dearest Amelia,
you have been like the first ray of summer in this long, cold winter of mine. -
S2 06: Sailing out onto the open sea
Dear God,
I am sailing out onto the open sea. I have left the moorings that tied down my little boat, the safety of the river bank. Soon I will arrive at a vastness bewildering to my senses -
S2 05: Don't despise your inner world
Trying to live as a whole person requires some measure of vulnerability. Martha Nussbaum wrote, “don’t despise your inner world”.
-
S2 04: We wrestle only with what is dear to us
1 January 2015. The beginning of another new year. This new year, there are things for my heart and mind to reconcile - this new perspective I am gaining and my faith.
-
S2 03: How the heart heals
It is three thirty am and I can’t sleep. I want to write a book on how the heart heals. I’ve supposed myself to have come out, someway at least, on the other side. But when morning is soon to break, and you’ve spent the last few hours watching sitcoms, while the cough in your chest won’t go away, and you have no one to tell all of these to, things feel a little funny.