A theologian is not one who grasps the truth but who has been grasped by the truth and transformed.

--Frederica Mathewes-Green

The well-intentioned idea of presenting the appealing, useful side of faith fails, I think, because it doesn't question deeply enough the basic consumer ethos. The transaction that takes place between a shopper-seeker and the goods acquired (groceries, furniture, the key to the meaning of life) is one that leaves the seeker in control, in a position of judging, evaluating, and rejecting the parts he doesn't like. But entering faith is more like making a promise or beginning a marriage. It involves being grafted into a community and requires a willingness to grow and change. If it didn't, if it merely confirmed us in our comfortable places, how could it free us to be more than we are?

--Frederica Mathewes-Green

A theologian is not made by 'understand, reading, or speculating,' but by 'living, no rather by dying and being damned.'

--Doctor Luther

I'm currently much appreciating his bluntness.

Young Amish girls sitting atop round hay bales and playing with a cat.

Daffodils bursting up.

Green. The grass is so vividly green!

The warmth.

Holding an impromptu Good Friday service with my mother, candlelit and directed by the Book of Common Prayer's order.

The tilling of garden beds and corn fields.

My mother's new hand-made rocking chair.

New barn kittens and rambunctious kittens of our own!

Buds and blooms.

The running of creeks.

Birds, their songs, their flight, their scurrying away.

...home.

Have a blessed Holy Saturday.