Every time we try to decide who truly belongs to Jesus, the Gospel answers by pointing to someone else and saying, “Make room.”

Unity is learning to see one another through the eyes of Christ. As people made in the image and likeness of God. As sisters and brothers before they are labeled and categorized. As worthy of dignity, respect, and love - even when we disagree. Especially when we disagree.

"Trust doesn’t always give us the answers we want, or the outcomes we think we deserve. But it does re-orient us. It shifts our gaze from the size of the giant to the faithfulness of God. It allows us to take that first step, and move forward."

"Our judgements about others are almost always incomplete. We might never see the inner wounds someone carries, the effort it might have taken just to show up, the faith it took to keep praying and trying, the struggles and intentions of another."

Good to start a new year here on Bluesky in God’s great outdoors. The AT in north Georgia was surprisingly (still) icy!