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I'm reaching out with something a bit special — an invitation to join me on a reflective journey called Deep Calls to Deep.
It is always the transformation of the smallest part that leads to the transformation of the whole. 
We groan and cry out in this painful life experience together. 
The cold, hard fact is that there are prayers that God does not answer.
Who can stand before this cosmically-sized love without being completely transformed?
Either way, you will ultimately face then refiner’s fire.
The word wrath isn’t an unloading of God’s fury and rage on the unrepentant.
There are many people who struggle to understand a God who unconditionally and preemptively forgives everyone.
The forgiveness of God is unconditional and preemptive.
You may not trust these words now, but there is hope in your pain and suffering.
God, I am done with you.
We live in an age in which stimulation and consumption are all too normal in our lives.
The Good News of the Kingdom of God is not one of the many things.  It is the thing.
I can't overstate how important it is for each of us to have people in our lives that we allow to speak truth to us.
The truth is that we can very easily miss the fact that "life to the fullest" has been here all along... right in front of us... in everything we do... in every moment.
If death is the end toward which all life is moving... then why does anything in our lives matter at all? Why ascribe any purpose to it whatsoever? It is all death in the end anyway.
Sometimes we need the desert to find our hearts and souls... and to remember who we are and what our purpose is. And no matter the endless circles and varied pathways we take in this desert life, the point at which they all converge is at the cross. For it is when we come to the cross that we choose to no longer go our own way.
We will not take part in continuing the endless cycle of death and destruction. Not with what we think. Not with what we say. Not with what we do.
I know who I am today and I know what role I play in this life because of my mother.
If the Church is to be the embodiment of new creation, a sign post of God’s present reign in our lives, who will nurture and guide us along the way?
We must become people of the bottom; people who are below; people who are last; people who are in the back; people who are the least.
Our communities are in desperate need of people who love each other and seek out Truth in love and who can hear it without egos and attitudes.
Each of you have had a part in Caroline’s life, molding her and shaping her into the person she is.
In solitude and silence we metaphorically come out from behind the bushes and trees and finally stand naked before God…exposed.