Lent – Preparing for Holy Week How did Mary of Bethany know? What prompted her to pour out rich perfume on Jesus’ feet? God’s spirit was strong in Mary, prompting her to act. She was guided by this spirit. Did she know that the man she loved was soon to die? Or was it just […]
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Lent – Preparing for Holy Week God never gives us more than we can handle, it has been said and it is true. There is nothing that this world can throw at us, that with God’s help, we can’t handle. God’s spirit is not a cowardly spirit. God places his spirit in each of us, […]
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Lent – Season of Change Fertile ground, lying fallow through the winter, waiting to be torn apart, ripped open by the plow. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting for the seed of new life. Ready . . . and waiting. So I wait for you, my God. I await your transforming presence. Let us know, let us strive […]
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Lent – Season of Change Home is the place where when you go there they have to take you in. She remembered this as she sat in the back of the church during the Reconciliation Service. It had been so many years since she had last been to church, yet it was still so familiar. […]
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Lent – Season of Change The neutral zone offers sanctuary where no fighting is allowed. People may pass safely and freely within its borders before returning to dangerous, conflict-ridden territory. The neutral zone–a respite from war, from tension, from hostility. I’m on overload from all the changes in my life. I need to disengage. I […]
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Lent – Season of Change We are in the season for potholes. With the spring thaw and rain, potholes are popping up everywhere, more numerous than the crocuses and daffodils. Soon work crews will be out undertaking the chore of filling them in. We know it is only a temporary fix for a long term […]
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Lent – Season of Change Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Just when it seemed that things couldn’t get worse, just when it seemed life was about to take a turn for the better, just when I thought, This is the darkness before the dawn . . . I find myself charred […]
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Lent – Season of Change Somehow, through all of the changes, all of the struggles at work, at home, struggles to just keep going every day, I have lost something. It didn’t happen overnight. It wasn’t sudden. It crept in gradually, secretly, until it stole my life from me. Until I no longer recognized who […]
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Lent – Season of Change Parents know that a wound-up, misbehaving child needs time-out, a chance to quiet down, to get his or her act back together. Even if the child is not misbehaving, parents know the dangers of just going, going, going–from one adventure to another–with a youngster, without some time-out in between. I, […]
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Lent – Season of Change Only the master surgeon cuts so deep, to the bone, destroying and healing with the same thrust of the two-edged knife. Though I think I can endure no more, the surgeon goes deeper, cutting away disease with skilled hands. These hands change me, restore my health. God is the Master […]
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