David Bowen
@dbowenjr.bsky.social
Retired. Auburn University alumnus. Ph.D. United Methodist
Enjoy supporting AU sports, reading, spending time with friends and family.
Enjoy supporting AU sports, reading, spending time with friends and family.
"We are not called to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love." - Jean Vanier
June 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
"We are not called to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love." - Jean Vanier
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” - Stephen R. Covey
June 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” - Stephen R. Covey
“Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around God.” - Joyce Meyer
June 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
“Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around God.” - Joyce Meyer
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Carl Bard
June 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Carl Bard
"The people I admire the most are the ones who fall and break and hurt and ache; yet still have the courage to rise once more." - April Green
June 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"The people I admire the most are the ones who fall and break and hurt and ache; yet still have the courage to rise once more." - April Green
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” - Mahatma Gandhi
June 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” - Mahatma Gandhi
It’s a beautiful morning in Auburn for early church at Auburn UMC. The Second Sunday after Pentecost. Hope everyone has a great day!
June 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It’s a beautiful morning in Auburn for early church at Auburn UMC. The Second Sunday after Pentecost. Hope everyone has a great day!
Love God. Love your neighbor.
Love the beautiful diversity around you. Love the wounded world.
Practice joy and justice. Trust. Tell the stories of faith over and over again. Create, imagine, envision.
Be your most beautiful, welcoming selves. Don't be fake.
-Diana Butler Bass
Love the beautiful diversity around you. Love the wounded world.
Practice joy and justice. Trust. Tell the stories of faith over and over again. Create, imagine, envision.
Be your most beautiful, welcoming selves. Don't be fake.
-Diana Butler Bass
June 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Love God. Love your neighbor.
Love the beautiful diversity around you. Love the wounded world.
Practice joy and justice. Trust. Tell the stories of faith over and over again. Create, imagine, envision.
Be your most beautiful, welcoming selves. Don't be fake.
-Diana Butler Bass
Love the beautiful diversity around you. Love the wounded world.
Practice joy and justice. Trust. Tell the stories of faith over and over again. Create, imagine, envision.
Be your most beautiful, welcoming selves. Don't be fake.
-Diana Butler Bass
"Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks." - Philip Yancey
June 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks." - Philip Yancey
"Look for an opportunity to be kind today, however, wherever, whenever, and to whomever you can." - David Jeremiah
June 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
"Look for an opportunity to be kind today, however, wherever, whenever, and to whomever you can." - David Jeremiah
"Weaponizing the Bible always benefits those in power when in reality, the whole narrative of scripture is the liberation of the oppressed." - Brandi Miller
June 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"Weaponizing the Bible always benefits those in power when in reality, the whole narrative of scripture is the liberation of the oppressed." - Brandi Miller
“The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.” - Mandy Hale
June 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
“The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.” - Mandy Hale
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” - Michel Legrand
June 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” - Michel Legrand
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
June 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day."- Eugene Peterson
June 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day."- Eugene Peterson
“No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.” - Roy T. Bennett
June 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
“No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.” - Roy T. Bennett
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” - John Wooden
June 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” - John Wooden
"It would seem that, quite possibly, the ultimate measure of health in any community might well reside in our ability to stand in awe at what folks have to carry rather than in judgment at how they carry it." - Gregory Boyle
June 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
"It would seem that, quite possibly, the ultimate measure of health in any community might well reside in our ability to stand in awe at what folks have to carry rather than in judgment at how they carry it." - Gregory Boyle
“We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.” - Eugene H. Peterson
June 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
“We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.” - Eugene H. Peterson
"I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness—it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude." - Brene Brown
June 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness—it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude." - Brene Brown
“We cannot expect life to be perfect. But we can expect to see life come from death. We can expect to see morning after night. We can expect that acceptance of the struggle will give rise to the victory over self.” - Joan Chittister
May 31, 2025 at 7:12 AM
“We cannot expect life to be perfect. But we can expect to see life come from death. We can expect to see morning after night. We can expect that acceptance of the struggle will give rise to the victory over self.” - Joan Chittister
“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.” - Thomas Merton
May 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.” - Thomas Merton
"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." - Henri Nouwen
May 29, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." - Henri Nouwen
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
May 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.” - W. C. Fields
May 27, 2025 at 5:32 AM
“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.” - W. C. Fields