Presence: a reminder.

I’ve written here about presence, particularly the presence of God.

Presence: and grief

Presence: and conversation

Presence: and me

Those post are part of a series I wrote when I was teaching a course on Pastoral Care. The idea that God is present with us is significant. Not fixing things, not doing what we want, but with us.

Right now, I’m teaching a class for beginning preachers and I’ve heard a few talks about some sentences in a letter Paul wrote to some people in Philipp...