spiritual formation

Jennifer Stewart Fueston Relays Visitations

Jennifer Stewart Fueston Relays Visitations

These summer days, when we might afford appointments with poetry, I encourage you to pick up Fueston's Visitations, which you can order from Finishing Line Press here. You may be lucky enough, like I have been, to sense the intimate embrace of God reaching through the text. You may, like me, want to breathe the words in and then exhale them slowly. You may, like me, find life here. 


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Stuck to the Feather-light Jesus

Stuck to the Feather-light Jesus

Not an aphorism I typically use for God. But it’s been floating around my mind for a week or two. The feather has fallen, perhaps, from the wings of friends I’ve watched fly out the open windows of churches over the years. 

Sitting with a new friend over coffee, the image takes shape. He tells me how he’s tried to leave his faith behind, but has remained within its ever-expanding walls. The problem is Jesus, he tells me. 

He just cannot get over Jesus. Jesus sticks. Like a feather, I think.


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Lent and the Art of Listening

Lent and the Art of Listening

Artist, who are you

What do you have to give? 

Can you answer?

We are waiting for your strange and beautiful shimmer. Will you shine for us?

Perhaps you don’t feel shiny today. Perhaps you don’t know how to peel back your skin for the gold beneath. 

Perhaps there is too much noise for you to hear your heartbeat.

“The present state of the world, the whole of life, is diseased.
If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I would reply:
‘Create silence! Bring men to silence.
The Word of God cannot be heard in the noisy world of today.
Create silence.'”

Soren Kierkegaard

Enter Lent.

For artists, Lent is a journey well worth taking. A journey towards something powerful. 


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