Karen Bables
Welcome to my blog about living as apprentices of Jesus! I am passionate about spiritual transformation and about helping others become like Jesus for the sake of others.
One of my favorite quotes is: "Whatever job we get and whatever task we are assigned can serve as a container for grace" (Eugene Peterson in "Practical Resurrection"). I pray that the words and sentences on this blog may also serve as "containers of grace" for its readers.
I ordinarily post on Wednesdays and Saturdays and welcome your comments on any post!
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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Putting Away Childhood
MY JOURNEY Today I took my granddaughter out to lunch to celebrate her 15th birthday. As we ate, she tentatively mentioned her dream of owning a car by her 16th birthday. As we talked it through, I mentioned that she would … Continue reading
Countering the World’s Darkness
Note to “followers”: This may have gone out to you earlier last week as a DRAFT. I’m re-posting it so that it will be part of the actual blog Living as Apprentices in an amoral world that daily spawns pain, … Continue reading
Posted in Living as Apprentices
Tagged Charles Moore, Clarence Jorden, Henri Nouwen, John Lewis, Karl Rahner, Martin Luther King
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“Soaked in the Presence of the Living Christ”
In Eternal Living, a new book reflecting on the life and teachings of Dallas Willard (who died in 2013), Richard Foster, his very good friend of forty years, writes, “[Dallas] possessed in his person a spiritual formation into Christlikeness that … Continue reading
Posted in Living as Apprentices
Tagged Dallas Willard, Nathan Foster, Richard Foster, spiritual disciplines
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“Live the Life I Sing About in my Song”
LIVING AS APPRENTICES In a blog on the Inward Outward website, Kayla McClurg of The Church of the Saviour says, “We tend to make [Jesus] into a paper-thin replica of our ideas of “holy” rather than let him be the … Continue reading
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Tagged "I'm Gonna Life the Life I Sing about in my Song", Mahalia Jackson, Thomas Andrew Dorsey
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Paddington Bear
LIVING AS APPRENTICES You and your spouse and two children (a 10-year-old and a teen-ager) are dragging yourselves through the train station after a much-dreamed-about but unsatisfying vacation when you are greeted by a scruffy 3′ 6″ bear wearing a … Continue reading
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Today we are reminded of the life and work of Martin Luther King and many other courageous men and women who fought, non-violently, against discrimination and injustice and for the right of all people to live in the reality of … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged Civil rights movement, Jesus, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King
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