by CG Ministries | Mar 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
I awoke this morning in the gold light turning this way and that thinking for a moment it was one day like any other. But the veil had gone from my darkened heart and I thought it must have been the quiet candlelight that filled my room, it must have been the first...
by CG Ministries | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world. You watched the stylish yachts and ships; one...
by CG Ministries | Mar 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
That you were born and you will die. That you will sometimes love enough and sometimes not. That you will lie if only to yourself. That you will get tired. That you will learn most from the situations you did not choose. That there will be some things that move you...
by CG Ministries | Mar 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Two years ago I launched Cara Gilger Ministries from home with a preschooler at home three days a week and a first grader who both required my time and attention. Over the past two years I have grown a consulting and writing ministry that is (nearly) full time while...
by CG Ministries | Mar 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
We saw something at once. And then it was over. Time started up again as if it had never stopped. We saw someone, and it was a soul. and that soul was us, or I, or everyone. We felt we had been waiting only after it had occurred. And once it had happened we were...
by CG Ministries | Mar 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another...
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