by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 5, 2020 | Joining Together
The day was like the others had been. Breakfast together, then walking to the next town, talking with people along the way, seeing to the needs of the poor, the hurting, the confused…everyone who had any kind of need. As they approached Jerusalem, it was hard not to...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 4, 2020 | Joining Together
“‘In the first place, it should be known that if a person is seeking God, His beloved is seeking him much more.’ This concept was profoundly liberating to me. I had been seeking, trying so hard to know God, but I perceived myself as being on a solitary quest. Reading...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 3, 2020 | Joining Together
“Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 2, 2020 | Joining Together
God is at work. In me. In you. In us. Even when we can’t see it, articulate it or define it. He is at work. What a relief! And joy! It’s not up to me to figure it out (or you either!). It’s not up to me to effect my change (which is good because I couldn’t get myself...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 1, 2020 | Joining Together
Patient Trust Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Mar 31, 2020 | Joining Together
Recently I was thinking about the act of creation, specifically evening and morning. Noticing that in today’s world we reverse the phrase to “day and night,” I wondered if there was any significance to the word order. Hebrew language is rooted in images: “In Hebrew,...
