Status Updates From Walking on Water: Reflectio...

“Aeschylus writes, ‘In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.’”

To write a story is an act of naming; in reading about a protagonist, I can grow along with, I myself am more named.

It is not easy for me to be a Christian, to believe 24 hours a day all that I want to believe. I stray, and then my stories pull me back if I listen to them carefully. I’ve often been asked if my Christianity affects my stories, and surely It is the other way around; my stories affect my Christianity, restore me, shake me by the scruff of the neck, and pull this straying sinner into an awed faith.

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the incarnation.

So glad to be coming back to this after so long! I’m really gonna miss not being able to attend Sabbath School on the first few chapters.