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…
Read MoreLenten 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…
Read MoreLenten 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. …
Read MoreLenten 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…
Read MoreLenten 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…
Read MoreLenten Lights II ~ “Pray to the One I Love” I don’t mean to over simplify this Holy Week. In fact the emotional and spiritual logic of it is irreducible. It’s a story strange and unique unto itself. But when…
Read MoreLenten 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…
Read MoreLenten 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…
Read MoreLenten 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.…
Read MoreLenten Lights EE One of the gifts of my commitment to chase light with my camera this Lenten season is that I’ve watched Spring’s coming out party with a very focused eye. One effect of that watching is my sense…
Read MoreLenten Lights DD ~ Window sometimes I only see the window itself sometimes the leaves beyond sometimes the separation sometimes the link Simone’s paradox: every separation is a link. _________ The photo was taken at the Fine Arts…
Read MoreLenten LIghts CC ~ You Rock! Earlier in Lent I met a man who calls himself “Black Elvis.” He’s quite an interesting guy, full of life and humor and joy. Today, we met again when he sat down at the…
Read MoreLenten 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…
Read MoreLenten 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…
Read MoreLenten Lights Z ~ Guest Post by Becky Sears Today’s photo and reflection come from photographer and friend, Becky Sears. If someone were to ask me what my greatest fear is, my answer would be loss of a loved one.…
Read MoreLenten Lights Y is for Yield Discovering the gifts of my own yard is inspiring me this Lenten season to pay attention to what is close at hand. I captured the evening light in this photo mid-way through dinner on…
Read MoreLenten Lights X ~ Learning from Failure I don’t know much about failure as a student. I came wired for academic success and achievement. I also came wired with tremendous shame about failures of any kind. No one ever really showed…
Read MoreLenten 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…
Read MoreLenten 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…
Read MoreLenten 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…
Read MoreLenten 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…
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