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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…

March 6, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent I

Lenten Lights B This afternoon on my way home I stopped by the Greenhills Library and caught the last of the day’s sun on “The Readers.” Writing and reading are among the enduring ways human beings share wisdom and relationships…

March 2, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Transfiguration Sunday by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Transfiguration Sunday

Anticipating Light Often I discover what I need, and what the world needs of me, are right in front of me or hidden within me. Yet I need light to recognize and receive the gifts and return them to the…

March 7, 2013Keeper of the Fire - Year C 2012-13 Lent 2013 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent III

Twenty-Third Psalm | Part 2 Note: This year for Lent my congregation, Glendale Baptist Church, is immersing itself in Psalm 23. Last week I posted the first part of a sermon I preached several years ago. (You can read Part 1 here.) Here…

February 16, 2013Keeper of the Fire - Year C 2012-13 Lent 2013 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent I

A Run at Letting Go This morning I awoke before my alarm. I lay there in a state half way between prayer and dreaming. After about 20 minutes of coming more fully awake I pushed myself out of the bed…

February 14, 2013Ash Wednesday 2013 Keeper of the Fire - Year C 2012-13 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Ash Wednesday

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,…

March 28, 2012Keeper of the Fire - Year B Lent 2012 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

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