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When faith goes dark.
After I stepped down from pastoring in an evangelical church in California, burnt out and aimless, I used to sit every week in the back of an early Catholic mass and witness it. Sometimes my lips would move. Sometimes I would say, “And with your spirit.” But I didn’t sing and seldom prayed.
Finding God in the night.
Many things will have taken a hard left turn—some will have seemed suddenly to drop off and vanish: hopes, discernment, progress. So much landscape has changed. How do we make sense of this?
Be still, and let God do some work.
While many of our churches are praying for the eradication of COVID-19, healing and physical protection from the virus, I would add a different prayer for us—that we would notice and nurture what God is wanting to do within us during these strange and troubled circumstances.
That which is done: The art of interiorization.
Every morning I wake up, I nearly hit my head on a ceiling of all that I might want to accomplish. They accumulate at different heights. Hanging just above me as I sleep is the rent check I still need to deliver. At sitting-up height are two of the articles I could have written by now, which are in the shadows of all the articles I know I can and so probably should compose at some point.