"When they came to land, they saw a charcoal fire laid there, with fish and bread on it. Jesus spoke to them. ‘Bring some of the fish you’ve just caught,’ he said." The Gospel of John Try something fun. Go ahead and light up your search engine with "campfire with Jesus." Amazing, right? We all have campfire memories. When I was young--around 11 or 12--I spent my summers on Vashon Island, a wonderful free-range place in Puget Sound. I'm pretty sure we had a beach bonfire ev

"Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for the transcendence, for the reverence everywhere to the mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine … to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple; to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal." --Abraham Heschel Somewhere Spri