'For Sleep, or Death' by Ruth Pitter Cure me with quietness,  Bless me with peace;  Comfort my heaviness,  Stay me with ease.  Stillness in solitude  Send down like dew;  Mine armour of fortitude  Piece and make new:  That when I rise again  I may shine bright  As the sky after rain, Day after night.

Small, sweet wonder.

Beauty is everywhere. At the Bonhoeffer House on a sunny Monday morning.

Nothing is more practical than finding God, than 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 with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in Love, stay in Love, and it will decide everything.

Book sightings in the wild! @itscarolineehler @interabangbooks

Meetups with Theological Horizons alumni in Dallas. Y’all are rocking it out here! @haley_diamond and Kamryn

Child of Wonder My bare feet walk the earth reverently for everything keeps crying, Take off your shoes The ground you stand on is holy The ground of your being is holy. When the wind sings through the pines like a breath of God awakening you to the sacred present calling your soul to new insights Take off your shoes! When the sun rises above your rooftop coloring your world with dawn Be receptive to this awesome beauty Put on your garment of adoration Take off your shoes! When the Red Maple drops its last leaf of summer wearing its “burning bush” robes no longer read between its barren branches, and Take off your shoes! When sorrow presses close to your heart begging you to put your trust in God alone filling you with a quiet knowing that God’s hand is not too short to heal you Take off your shoes! When a new person comes into your life like a mystery about to unfold and you find yourself marveling over the frailty and splendor of every human being Take off your shoes! When, during the wee hours of the night you drive slowly into the new day and the morning’s fog, like angel wings hovers mysteriously above you Take off your shoes! Take off your shoes of distraction Take off your shoes of ignorance and blindness Take off your shoes of hurry and worry Take off anything that prevents you from being a child of wonder. Take off your shoes; The ground you stand on is holy. The ground you are is holy. ~ Marina Wiederkehr. Seasons of Your Heart: Prayers & Reflections

The first Vintage Lunch of the semester: a cozy fire + good friends + chicken = the best kind of snow day! Join us here at the Bonhoeffer House each and every Friday at 1pm. All welcome. Always