Easter ~ Holy Week Remembered Blessed Easter to you. This gallery of Lenten Lights is a remembrance of Holy Week. When accounting theologically for the mystery of Easter, neither the agony nor the pain of Holy Week entirely departs, yet we practice the resurrection of letting it…
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Lenten Lights MM ~ Silent Saturday Early this morning in my car headlines on the radio jumped out to me for the long and deep silences in each stories. . . prolonged waiting for grieved families, the crushing depths of the ocean, the ignorance of damage…
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Lenten Lights LL ~ Good Friday The morning started with a chase after neighborhood crosses. Here’s some of what I found. The morning was grey and clouds hung on the verge of tears. …
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Lenten Lights KK ~ Maundy Thursday My congregation actually has a “Maundy Wednesday” service – for each of the last ten years. Maybe more. We gather for our usual midweek meal, which is not all that usual, since we take turns…
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Lenten Lights JJ ~ Holding out Hope Just a few weeks ago, on the third day of Lent (March 7) I wrote about standing in “hope and expectation that new leaves will appear soon” on this very tree. Now in Holy Week…
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Lenten Lights HH ~ Labyrinth Tonight I feel the blessings of a community that sets up a Holy Week labyrinth, and says, come and walk. The candles were lit. My daughter first tagged along at my heals then pushed past…
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Lenten Lights GG ~ Remembrance Searching my cache of photos for palms and Palm Sunday, I came across this picture of the Holocaust Memorial of Miami, taken while on Spring Break trip last year. There are indeed palms, but they…
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Lenten Lights FF ~ Guest Post by Michaela O’Donnell Long Today’s photo and reflection come from photographer, media producer, and friend, Michaela O’Donnell Long.* “Morning Door” by Michaela O’Donnell Long I work from home. Well, technically, I work from my garage-turned-studio.…
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Lenten Lights BB ~ Writing Inspiration Today was a full day of writing … little bits on several different projects. Much of my schedule day to day is filled with writing. So I’ve opened a new page on my site…
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Lenten Lights AA ~ Six Word Story ~ because Sundays in Lent are celebrations ~ +++++++++++++++ Six-Word Stories for Lenten Lights Six Word Stories, inspired by Ernest Hemingway show up often on my blog. During the 40 days of Lent, six-word stories are…
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Lenten Lights W ~ An Advantage in Failure? Sarah Lewis says in the opening chapter of The Rise, “I was focused on improbable rises because I was beginning to live with the gift of what it means to be underestimated. What…
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