Friday, August 29, 2025

We are carved by life into instruments that will release our song, if we can hold each up to the carving.

Mark Nepo

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When we pause long enough to listen, we hear that love always longs to cross thresholds we once thought impassable. A simple gesture—an open letter, a knock on a locked door, an awkward introduction—can become the seed of transformation. What begins as fear and suspicion has the potential to become an embrace, the press of another’s head against your chest, the recognition of kinship where once there was only distance. Imagine what might happen around the world if more and more Christians rediscover that central to Christian life and mission is what we could call subversive or transgressive friendship—friendship that crosses boundaries of otherness and dares to offer and receive hospitality. This imagination is not fanciful; it is the daily work of courage, humility, and surrender to love.

May your heart find strength in the courage of friendship.

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