... and dark staircases until they came at last to the kitchen, and finally to the place where the dishes were washed. There, covered with grease and grime, was the meanest, lowliest, most mentally deficient of all the monks. The abbot pointed to him and said, "God." Fred Craddock, one of America's great ... . 2. The story is also found in Craddock Stories, Mike Graves and Richard Ward, eds., (St. Louis : Chalice Press, 2001) 3. William Carter, "Where Does Easter Happen?" sermon delivered on The Protestant Hour, 4/18/ ...
... love, and submission laid his tiny head upon the man’s ragged shoulder. The man’s eyes closed, and I saw tears hover beneath his lashes. His aged hands full of grime, pain, and hard labor--gently, so gently, cradled my baby’s bottom and stroked his back. No two beings have ever loved so deeply for so short a time. I ... . Lloyd III, http://www.trinityboston.org/wsp_smn_smnpage.asp?docpage=20041224.html. 4. Rev. Richard E. Stetler, http://www.stmatthews-bowie.org/Worship/Sermons/2003/sermon_12_21_03.asp.
... Press, 1995). This book tells the story of London’s poor, abused children whose only escape from the cruelty and grime of servitude is death. But these poor children are “reborn” as “water babies.” And as “water babies” they are ... day. Arron Chambers, in his charming book Remember Who You Are (Standard Publishing, 2008), 204ff., re-tells a story he found in Richard Hoeffer’s Will Daylight Come? (25-27). Here’s the story: A little boy visiting his grandparents was given his first slingshot. ...
... a fertile, nurturing place for that Spirit to grow and thrive. We’ve got to deal with muck in some manure and get grime under our fingernails. Our gardening in the Spirit brings to fruit the seeds of faithfulness we are nursing along. In Matthew 7:22 ... you; if you seed hate, hate comes back at you. But the form of that love will sometimes be unpredictable. Blake Harrison and Richard W. Judd have put together A Landscape History of New England (2013). What they reveal about the cycle of seedtime and harvest ...
