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Blog Archives: May 2020
Justice, not Just Us
May 28, 2020
“It’s not fair, mommy! If she gets to have a cookie, then I should get to have one too!”
Some of us have this idea of justice. Fighting for my rights, to get what I deserve, to get what others have.
If this was Jesus’ idea of justice, this almighty God would not have been born as a fragile baby to a poor teen mom. If this was Jesus’ idea of justice, this perfectly sinless, all powerful Lord of heaven and earth would not have subjected himself to a criminal’s death on the cross for our sake. If this was Jesus’ idea of justice, we would ...
How God Tends to Work: More on Unanswered Prayer
May 25, 2020
I just had a preach on unanswered prayer and there was just so much to say. One thought that I have been wrestling with that just didn’t make the cutting room floor was of how God seems to work in the world.
Sometimes I have heard God work suddenly or through these miracles. Sometimes I seen God work in coincidences that are just too perfect or too timely to be a coincidence. But JI Packer is quick to note on his book on prayer that How God tends to work is within the, “ordinary processes of ordinary life”1. In other words, Packer notes how ...
There's Something You Should Know Before you Decide
May 20, 2020
You’re doing it!!! Congratulations is in order. You’re surviving a global pandemic, and that’s no small thing!
Everything depends on how you look at it! Like your hair, for example. You can look at it and say I’m struggling. Or you can say, I’m overcoming some serious challenges. By God’s grace, I’m growing; personally, emotionally and spiritually.
If you’re like me, this season of upheaval has left you craving certainty. When is my area reopening? When will there be a vaccine ready? When will life resume some kind of normal?
The truth ...
The Son Run Isn’t Cancelled
May 13, 2020
For the first time in Tap Nights albeit brief history, we were going to participate in the Vancouver Sun Run. And oh, let me tell you—we were pumped. We came up with a team name: “Nights in Tights” (…don’t ask). We began to regularly train together for the run. And why did we want to do this? Because, it was a fun thing to do! And I know that for some running 10K is not your idea of fun, it sounds more like torture. But we thought it was a nice way to get out there with 60,000 other people, to be active and involved in a Vancouver-y thing to ...
Breath Prayers are for the Weak
May 06, 2020
This poem was written as a reflection on my attempts at pausing for prayer this week.
Karen Schaffer is the pastor of spiritual formation for The Tapestry Richmond Photo by Amaury Gutierrez
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