Eileen Campbell-Reed

March 31, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XXII

Lenten Lights V ~ Shattered Visions “Failure is an orphan until we give it a narrative.” – Sarah Lewis, The Rise I’ve been contemplating failure. And I’m inviting you to think with me about it. It is not usually a…

March 29, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XXI

Lenten Lights U You prepare a table for me +++++++++++++++ Six-Word Stories for Lenten Lights Six Word Stories are inspired by Ernest Hemingway, and I regularly add them to my blog. During the 40 days of Lent, six-word stories will (usually) be delivered on…

March 28, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XX

Lenten Lights T is for Tree Each day when I arrive at my office, I take a picture of this tree. As I step out of my car, I stand in roughly the same place and line up my phone/camera…

March 27, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XIX

Lenten Lights S ~ Play In the City Park of New Orleans stands a century-old carousel. Something this old and ornate and fun feels impossible for me to resist photographing. The afternoon light when we visit is not terribly cooperative,…

March 26, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XVIII

Lenten Lights R ~ Visibility Walking through the streets of New Orleans, so much captures my vision: the visible and the hidden. A wrought iron window in a blue door pulls me up for a closer look at its intricate…

March 25, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XVII

Lenten Lights Q – Desire We are well into the season when all things are made new here North of the Equator. The approaching Easter gathers up its own celebration of life renewed in resurrection. The earth cooperates in abundant…

March 24, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XVI

Lenten Lights P ~ Memphis Part 2 Today is the birth date of Civil Rights leader, Dorothy Irene Height (1912-2010). It is a lovely serendipitous moment for my Lenten journey because already my intention was to write about the “Freedom’s…

March 22, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XV

Lenten Lights O ~ Memphis Part 1 I spent most of the morning on the verge of tears, teaching and explaining through my sadness and grief and outrage and pride. It was my second time through the National Civil Rights…

March 21, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XIV

Lenten Lights N ~ Guest Post by Frank Thomas Today’s photo and reflection on light come from photographer and friend, Frank Thomas.* Lent and Light ~ Frank Thomas I’m in a position to wait. Camera shake won’t be a problem…

March 20, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XIII

Lenten Lights M #Spring

March 19, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XII

Lenten Lights L Leonard Cohen captures the human experience like few others. The poetry and atmosphere in “Come Healing” capture the intermingling of Lent’s longing for healing, the chase of light and shadow, and the earth awakening to all that…

March 18, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XI

Lenten Lights K ~ Living Water Watch out! Moving through Lent and toward this Sunday’s worship, we are going to get wet. Water is a central character in three readings this week. And how precisely fitting! We humans are more…

March 17, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent X

Lenten Lights J – Shamrock! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Meet, Larry Morris, Contributor salesperson, self proclaimed “Black Elvis” and today, Shamrock! Saturday morning, I stopped by McDonald’s in Bellevue for breakfast on the run, and I was totally delighted by…

March 15, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent IX

Lenten Lights I watercolor vision ~ church year ~ circling seasons __________ Six-Word Stories for Lenten Lights Several years ago I discovered Six Word Stories, inspired by Ernest Hemingway. Photos with six-word stories are scattered around my blog. During the…

March 14, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent VIII

Lenten Lights H ~ Honeycomb Spring is not waiting for the calendar. Today the earth is awake with divine glory. Bees are buzzing. Hives are waking up after a long cold winter. Trees and flowers are opening their buds.…

March 13, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent VII

Lenten Lights G ~ Lenten Rose II Two Lenten Roses in one week seems both surprising and excessive. Here’s how it happened… As we sat down to dinner my husband said, “There is another of those Lenten Roses blooming in the…

March 12, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent VI

Lenten Lights F Earlier this week my daughter and I chased the evening light so we could get a walk before dark. We followed the curve of the river along the Harpeth Greenway. She rode her scooter, and I walked…

March 11, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent V

Lenten Lights E2 This coming Sunday (3.16.2014) a full moon will rise. The gospel text for Sunday is the story of Nicodemus coming to Jesus under cover of night. Surely Jesus must have gestured to the night sky when he…

March 10, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent IV

Lenten Lights E ~ Lenten Rose During the snow/ice last Monday, my husband said, “Something is blooming in the flower bed next to the front porch.” “No way!” I said. (Being that he is color deficient, I totally discounted any bloom…

March 9, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent III

Lenten Lights D “love surrounds those who trust God” ____________ Six-Word Stories for Lenten Lights Several years ago I discovered Six Word Stories, inspired by Ernest Hemingway. You’ll find the photos with six-word stories scattered around the blog. Today’s…

March 7, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent II

Lenten Lights C Lent is one of the church’s two extended seasons of preparation and reflection. Advent is the other. Time in the church’s liturgical calendar is not merely chronological time (or chronos) with one hour following another, one day following…