james from psalm 130

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers.

I cried when I was born and every day shows why.

An experienced gardener knows the value of not watering their tomatoes. Well, there's a little more to it, but that's the headline. Suppose you go to the nursery in the spring and get a tom...

Imagine you have an invisible recorder around your neck that, for all your life, records every time you say to somebody else, “You ought.” It only turns on when you tell somebody else how to live. In ...

Triumph and failure always go together in the wait of faith. They are the head and tail of the same coin. Show me a person who has had no struggle with waiting, whose faith has known no swings between...

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.