Embrace the mystery of today for where it might lead you tomorrow…
Standing on the Corner of Mystery
Shining Like the Sun
What are you going to do today and how are you going to do it?
Social Distancing and Community
Dear friends, stay safe, but reach out to someone who might need you today.
Music Video: Empty Myself
Last week, my friend and musical collaborator John Caravelli and I recorded a new version of one of my older songs, “Empty Myself.” As we enter more fully into the Lenten season, it’s a song about the need to empty ourselves in order to make room for the movement of God.
Give yourself permission to slow down today. Maybe start with this short video. Grace + peace to you all during this time of fear and uncertainty.
Video harvested from the free stock video site Pixabay.
Words and music by Steve Givens, copyright 2020, Potter’s Mark Music. Lead vocals by Steve Givens and guitar and background vocals by John Caravelli.
Learning to Ponder in the Age of Social Media
This originally appeared as a “Faith Perspectives” column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on February 13, 2020.
In an age when impersonal communication happens at lightning-fast speeds and with often very little thought or time given to the responses we make other than the very first — and often the most vitriolic — thought that enters our heads, we might all be wise to consider the time-tested virtues of pondering.
Pondering is not merely thinking or daydreaming or simply observing. It’s the work of paying attention and being open, of connecting the facts of the situation with a greater sense of presence, of recognition of the small within the whole, of finding meaning and perhaps even God in the things and actions of the Earth and of our own lives. All that doesn’t come easy at a time when we can tell someone hundreds or thousands of miles away exactly what we think of their inane idea 30 seconds after they post it and ten seconds after we have formed a response in our gut and before it has spent even a fleeting moment in our conscience minds. Such willingness on our part to slow down and ponder takes intention.
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