Did You Know?

That the CLF’s Worthy Now website offers education and opportunities for those involved in prison ministry?

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Buddy

She arrived early Monday morning: homeless, forlorn-looking, carried by the maintenance worker who had found her.

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To Be a Blessing

I love my job. I love driving to the hospital each morning, having no idea of what will happen that day—who I’ll meet, what I’ll do, whether there will be triumphs or tragedies, joy or heartbreak, setbacks, small signs of progress or holding patterns.

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The Soul of the Whole

It seems to me we speak all the time and all at once of two kinds of spiritual integrity, two ways of being deeply, liberally, religious—one looking inward, one looking outward.

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Soul

Not that transparent self tucked under my skin… one day to be set free by my death that it might fly.

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The Movement of the Spirit

Have you ever had a spiritual experience, a sense of movement of the spirit? A flash in time when your appreciation for the world was so complete, so perfect, that you were transfixed and transformed?

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From Your Minister

“I love seeing that you’re entertaining earth spirits in the yard,” the man said to me, bending his head so that his tall frame could fit through my front door.

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REsources for Living

There are a whole lot of words from poets and preachers and wise folks of various types that have changed how I understand the world, but there’s one quote that has maybe shaped what I’ve done with my life more than any other.

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Gardeners of the Spirit

Help us be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers.

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