Transformed By Christ Ministries

10/08/2026

This was the last poem in Raymond Carver’s last book, written while he was dying of cancer. It is also the inscription on his tombstone.

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
by Raymond Carver
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09/24/2026

“Spiritual practice can be anything done with an awareness of God who is with you, beside you and who is for you.” Emily P. Freeman

From The Next Right Thing: 395: Find a Spiritual Practice That Fits Your Life, Sep 22, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-right-thing/id1268826768?i=1000791077653&r=233
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09/20/2026

"The beloved disciple sends a message both to the sinner covered with shame and to the local church tentative and slow to forgive for fear of appearing lax or liberal. The number of people who have fled the church because it is too patient or compassionate is negligible; the number who have fled because they find it too unforgiving is tragic." Brennan Manning

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self secking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs."
I CORINTHIANS 13:4-5

09/14/2026

“Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection.”

― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

09/13/2026

"As long as we insist on living out of the norms of external consciousness, and not be willing to let love carry us into mythic interior dimensions of paradoxical, poetic freefall….”
James Finley