“Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.” –Linda Hogan Last August I found myself in a situation where I needed to have emergency surgery. I’d gotten a bacteria infection so intense that it required a major surgical procedure to remove the tumor. …
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Meaningless
The book of Ecclesiastes opens in this way: The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” The word meaningless seems to go against everything we’ve heard about spiritual formation, doesn’t it? In classes, sermons and lectures, we read passages of sacred texts …
