Content Tagged ‘time’

Opening the Doors of Time

September 22, 2020 | Tags: , , , , , ,

Opening the door, or in other words, the practice of hospitality, has always mattered as a religious principle. Not only to religious communities greeting their guests, but to the very purpose of religious life. As a posture of open-hearted welcome, hospitality insists that only when we warmly greet the stranger will we be capable of […]

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Soul time, Sabbath time

May 29, 2017 | Tags: , , , , ,

broken pocket watch with no hands

Back when time had hands and a face and watches were wound daily, my grandfather fixed clocks and watches at an old wooden workbench at the back of his jewelry store. When I was about ten, he gave me a shoebox of old watch and clock parts – springs and gears as well as hands […]

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