Beyond Our Wants and Fears Note: This week’s lectionary readings include Psalm 23. My congregation followed the Good Shepherd throughout Lent, inspiring this story. Saturday “Maaa-maaaaah!” The wail comes over my phone. It’s late in the afternoon following a beautiful…
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Holy Week VIII
Holy Week | Postcards Silent Saturday This Holy Week has been full with my family’s travels across South Florida. It has been a good practice to share digital postcards with family and friends this week as we were away for Spring…
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Holy Week | Postcards Good Friday Mama hens, baby chicks, and roosters have the run of Key West. They can be heard at all hours and seen roaming every street, beach, alley, and yard. Each rooster crows with more vibrato than…
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Holy Week | Postcards Maundy Thursday From an amazing treehouse hammock in South Florida, I’m thinking about Maundy Thursday and Jesus’ commandment to love (John 13:34-35). I have taken this to be the highest directive from Jesus most of my adult…
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Holy Week | Postcards Wednesday As we move deeper into Holy Week, today’s digital postcard taps into deeper harms and betrayals as well. For all the beauty of the places we are traveling on Spring Break this week, and all the beauty of…
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Holy Week | Postcards Tuesday Today’s digital postcard is the third in a series of posts from our travels this Holy Week (and Spring Break for my family). This photo comes from standing in line near the “southern most point” in the…
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Holy Week | Postcards Monday This is the second in a series of digital postcards from our travels this Holy Week, which is also Spring Break for our family. One of our first stops of the trip was an accidental one.…
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Holy Week | Postcards This year Holy Week and Spring Break fall in the same week. So we are traveling. We are loving our travels through the amazing tropical regions of South Florida. (Meanwhile predictions of snow fill the forecast at…
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Love, Courage and Trust for Lent I wasn’t ready for this week. It’s been theological and emotional whiplash. And we’re only to Wednesday. The Grammy Awards, the State of the Union address, my daughter’s mid-winter teacher conference and three-day break,…
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The Beauty of Need To want. To need. To love. Surely this is what lit up the face of Moses? Want. Need. Love. Awe. “Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two…
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Even the Sparrow Finds a Home tuesday this morning I stepped outside into the unseasonably warm air to be embraced by birdsong carried like a child on the arms of everything new did Mary hold Jesus like any overwhelmed teenaged…
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“Bless our loved ones everywhere” The third Sunday of Advent* is upon us, and I don’t know about you, but the power of overwhelming circumstances seems to be at every turn. Semesters are ending for students. Financial budgets are coming…
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Advent I : A Parable of Self Sufficiency and Vulnerability
“Then he told them a parable: ‘Look at the fig tree and all the trees’” (Luke 21:29) A Parable of Self Sufficiency and Vulnerability (2012) I step up to check my bag at the curbside valet stand. The early December…
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