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Love Has Feet

Posted on by Michael Rose
Eugene Peterson writes in the Message translation of the Bible that in so many ways love has been graphitti’d over by a self-absorbed culture.  Our modern love stories are more akin to lust stories, and when we look closely at today’s idea of love it is really quite anemic and, for this reason, lacks any…
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Loss

Posted on by Michael Rose
 I stand in dismay and great sorrow with the recent tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. I am at a loss for words, with only a whisper of “oh dear God.” My mind jumped back almost 14 years ago when we lived a similar horror here in Taber, Alberta, Where a student walked into our local high school…
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Falling Fearlessly into Love

Posted on by Michael Rose
For a great many of the folks that I have had the privilege to work with, the smudge on the lens of Christian surrender has made genuine surrender very difficult. For many, when we speak about surrender we immediately think in the language of the world system which is often capitulation. Capitulation is the kind of…
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The Heart of Good Gifts

Posted on by Michael Rose
One of the things I really enjoy is getting together with other folks who are on the journey.   I am astounded at how the central themes are all the same but the expression of those themes through individual lives is marvelously varied and unique.  It reminds me that the God we serve is infinitely…
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How Meaning Inspires Overcoming

Posted on by Michael Rose
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Dr. Viktor Frankl Viktor Frankl, the founder of Logo-therapy (aka Meaning Therapy) was interned in a Nazi concentration camp as a laborer.    The living…
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