A whole Holy Week. Sunday to Sunday.
This is a week set aside each year to follow Christ through the final week of His human life - to recall the events leading to His crucifixion and eventual Resurrection.
As I have been reflecting on this part of Jesus' life in this...
Many scholars say that the gospels were "written backwards", meaning that all four gospels match the most closely at the very end of Jesus' life story. The farther we travel back in Jesus' ministry, and then into his childhood and birth, the less closely each of the gospel...
This time last week, the world looked quite different than it does today. We were considering sacrificing something for Lent by choice. We were showing up to work everyday, participating in our usual activities. Our kids were in school. Our friends were meeting us for dinner.
This...
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do...
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus...
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. (2 Corinthians 12:9)
Ash Wednesday. The first day of Lent. Day...