Author: Sweet Tea and Front Porch Storyteller
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“Do You Love Me?” — Feed My Lambs
📖 Today’s Daily Office Readings 🌅 A Curious Pilgrim Reflection There is something deeply personal—almost unsettling—about that moment on the shore in John 21. The risen Jesus looks at Peter, not once, not twice, but three times, and asks: “Do you love me?” It is not a theological question.It is not a doctrinal test.It is…
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🌿 Bearing Burdens, Carrying Loads, and Leaving Judgment to God
A Curious Pilgrim Reflection 📖 Scripture for Today Galatians 6:2, 5“Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”“For all must carry their own loads.” Romans 14:7, 12“We do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves.”“So then, each of us will be accountable to God.”…
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“Farther Along: Living in the Sunshine We Do Not Yet Understand”
Reflections from a Curious Pilgrim “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”— John 13:7 “For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully…”— 1 Corinthians 13:12 🌾 A Memory…
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🌬️ Breathed Into Life: The Spirit Within Us
“Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.” — Genesis 2:7 “Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit.” — Ephesians 5:18 “When he had said this,…
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Loved Into Being: A Curious Pilgrim Reflection on Freedom and Personhood
From The Divine Dance by Richard Rohr My Reflection from Today’s Reading Richard Rohr writes about the perfect freedom of God. He describes human personhood not as a static notion, but as something entirely dynamic and relational, shared between the divine persons and all human persons by reason and gift of creation. He writes that…
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Living in the Flow: A Curious Pilgrim Reflection on Divine Love
Inspired by The Divine Dance by Richard Rohr A Gentle Question What would change in your lifeif you stopped trying to “get it right”…and instead learned to live in the flow of love that is already holding you? That question has been sitting with me. I can only read a couple of pages at a…
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The Courage to Stay Open: Lessons from the Spirit’s Movement
From The Divine Dance by Richard Rohr I can only read a couple of pages a day in The Divine Dance. Not because it is difficult to understand—but because it is too revealing. It slows me down. It confirms things I have sensed for years but never quite had the words to express. Today, two…
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Rejoice, Wait, Give, Abide
A Front Porch Reflection for the Curious Pilgrim The Daily Readings An Invitation to a Different Way of Living Sit a spell with me on the porch. These four passages, though written across centuries, speak with one voice today. They do not call us to a complicated theology or a heavy burden. Instead, they offer…
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Vulnerable to the Spirit: Living in the Flow of Life and Love
“The work of the Spirit to keep you growing is to keep you vulnerable to life and love. The major metaphors for the Spirit are always dynamic, energetic, and moving: elusive wind, descending dove, falling fire, and flowing water. Spirit-led people never stop growing and changing and recognizing the new moment of opportunity.”— Richard Rohr,…
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