And I said Kaddish for my mother, my father, Henry, my grandfather, grandmother, and my mother’s father and mother, wherever they are. By myself of course, no minyan.� “A lot of people would not approve,� she offered. Elegant, almost
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“I had begun to comprehend that the Bible’s story is about the relationship of God to human beings, and of human beings to one another, and that this meant that it is our friendships, marriages, families, and even church congregations that best reveal what kind of theology we have, who our God is. Or, as Thomas Merton once put it, “because we love, God is present.â€� That is the story.”
― Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
― Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
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