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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 15h

Proof that vocation ages well. Congratulations, Dianna!

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 15h

What is the moth? Let me know what you think.

Here’s the poem: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #poetry

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 15h

What is the moth? Let me know what you think.

Here’s the poem: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #poetry

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 17h

Who is the moth?

Read the whole poem: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #poetry

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 17h

Who is the moth?

Read the whole poem: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #poetry

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 19h

Fascinating.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 20h

Who is the moth?

Read the rest of the poem: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged...
#poetry

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Kevin.

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

The Moth (a poem)
open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #poem #poetry #light #spirit #screens #moth

Reposted by Jason G. Edwards

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Crosby puts words to what many of us learn the hard way: God is faithful even when heaven feels silent.

The life of faith isn’t always ecstatic light. More often it’s quiet, earthy, and cross-shaped, but that’s where grace does its slow, enduring work.

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Crosby puts words to what many of us learn the hard way: God is faithful even when heaven feels silent.

The life of faith isn’t always ecstatic light. More often it’s quiet, earthy, and cross-shaped, but that’s where grace does its slow, enduring work.

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

An education in empathy…or at least the soil where it might take root. Still underrated.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

I feel seen. That’s probably why I get so much R&B turned bluegrass by duos harmonizing in barns.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like the sages saw yibbum and said, "Let’s… workshop that."

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

If we’re honest, some of us were warned against “works” so strenuously that we missed the goodness of holy practice. Others tried to form ourselves by raw willpower and burned out. The path between is partnership with grace.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

In a culture hooked on outrage, gentleness quiets the storm without denying its force.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Courage is not the absence of fear but the decision to love something more than our fear.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

In a polarized age, holy curiosity creates openings where the Spirit can move.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Psychologist Todd Kashdan has shown that curiosity doesn’t simply make us more informed; it makes us more resilient and more connected, because it keeps us open to what we don’t yet know. Curiosity is a holy refusal to reduce the world to our assumptions.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Paul calls these inner qualities “the fruit of the Spirit”: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Gal. 5:22–23). These are not merely personality upgrades or moral achievements; they are manifestations of the Spirit’s life in us.

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus gathers the wisdom stream into a human life. In the Beatitudes he blesses poverty of spirit, meekness, mercy, purity of heart, peacemaking. He is not listing entry requirements. He is describing what life looks like when God reigns within a person.

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

The Psalms school our emotions into prayer, giving anger a voice before God and sorrow a home in God’s presence.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

The good news is that the Spirit doesn’t wait for perfect canvas. God works with what is. Here integrity takes the shape of honesty: telling the truth about what has frayed, and inviting the Spirit’s mending.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

No one forms character in a vacuum. We discover the thin places in conflict and fatigue, in our quick temper on a tired day, in the impulse to control when we’re afraid.

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

We keep sabbath with actual clocks, share bread with real hands, forgive with a voice that has to form words. Formation is embodied. You can spot it in a face that softens instead of hardens, a tone that invites rather than intimidates, a posture that stays open in the presence of pain.