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The Yielding Cup: Augustine and the God Who Forgets Our Forgetting (Lectio Divina)
We forget God many times a day, and no amount of resolve seems to change it. Augustine reads Psalm 23 and finds a cup that yields forgetfulness, which sounds like the very thing we are trying to avoid. This reflection sits with that strange paradox, and with the question of who is really doing…
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Lie Down, Be Still: The Gift of Sabbath Rest in Christ (Lectio Divina)
In this Lectio Divina reflection, Robert Van Valkenburgh begins with a friend’s confession that his life feels like a hamster on a wheel — spinning under the weight of obligations, responsibilities, and everyone else’s needs and agendas. From this honest moment of recognition, the post moves into a meditation on Sabbath not as idleness…