Writings

So how do we serve God constantly? We try to resist the power of the self-serving life. We can serve God by serving others

This is some of Jesus’ teaching about counting the cost of discipleship. It is not cheap. You must give up a lot: home, family, visions for your future—all for a sometimes uncertain road.

There are little acts of kindness and self-giving that you find in yourself as you live in community. These aren’t the heavy burdens of splintered, wooden crosses. But they are the daily actions of picking up your cross.

Your e-mails, letters, cards and prayers meant much to me. They reminded me in a most moving way just how fortunate I am.

In the dining hall on Koinonia Farm, the community lights a candle everyday at lunch to remind its members to pray for peace. The candle serves as a concrete symbol for an often abstract and difficult charge: peace through reconciliation