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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From My Reading – October
“My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. Maybe nothing is more than important … Continue reading
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Tagged Audre Lorde, Becca Stevens, Frederick Buechner, Pema Chodron, Richard Rohr, Valerie Kaur
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From My Reading – August
“The Bible is usually very universal and makes you want to see something—some image to imagine it by. ‘The light shines in the darkness,’ John says, and maybe you see an agonizing burst of light with the darkness folding back like … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Joshua Heschel, David Steindal-Rast, Frederich Buechner, Kay Lindahl, Rabindranath Tagore, Richard Rohr
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From My Reading – July
“Healthy religion is always humble about its own holiness and knowledge. It knows that it does not know. The true biblical notion of faith, which balances knowing with not knowing, is rather rare today, especially among many religious folks who … Continue reading
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Tagged Bell Hooks, Henri Nouwen. Christina Baldwin, Ikkyu, Nathan Foster, Richard Rohr, Stanley Hauerwas
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From My Reading – April
“A TRUE ATHEIST is one who is willing to face the full consequences of what it means to say there is no God. To say there is no God means among other things that there are no absolute standards. For instance, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop Desmond Tutu, Elizabeth Harrison, Frederich Buechner, Harper Lee, Richard Rohr, Ruth Burrows, Van Jones
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From My Reading – March
“As I understand it, to say that God is mightily present even in such private events as these [his father’s suicide, for example] does not mean that he makes events happen to us which move us in certain directions like … Continue reading
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Tagged Br David Steindel-Rast, Br. David Steindal-Rast, Frederick Buechner, Henri Nouwen, Ilia Delio, Richard Rohr
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From My Reading – November
“Here is the principle: We can only transform people to the degree that we have been transformed. We can only lead others as far as we ourselves have gone. We have no ability to affirm or to communicate to another … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian McLaren, Frederick Buechner, Richard Rohr
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From My Reading – June
“I wasn’t old enough (11) to realize that the knee-jerk repulsion I felt [about swimming in a pool with black people] was the inheritance passed down to me from literally hundreds of years of white people propagating and benefiting from … Continue reading
From My Reading – April
“What I began to see was that the Bible is not essentially, as I had always more or less supposed, a book of ethical principles, of moral exhortations, of cautionary tales about exemplary people, of uplifting thoughts—in fact, not … Continue reading
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