Weekly Inspiration (6/20/24)

“ The healing and wholeness of God is spacious – as spacious as the Resurrection, the opening of every door, the rolling away of every stone. But I don’t think that means salvation is a “one size fits all” process. It is exact and intimate to the measure of each life. There is a narrow door – a specific, particular, and personal door – for each disciple who tries to enter. “

Br. Keith Nelson
Society of Saint John the Evangelist

Poem of the Week

Known
by Steve Garnaas-Holmes

             I am the good shepherd.
          I know my own and my own know me.
                                             —John 10.14

Never mind that imagined judge
who sits at the end and judges:
trust instead the companion
who journeys with you and knows you,
knows the faults and struggles,
the wounds and sorrows,
the shadows needing forgiveness
and the gifts awaiting wings;
the one who knows you
like your blood knows you, who knows
who you are still being born to become.
The one who doesn't need to judge,
because they know you—
follow that one.