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Reflection for the Second Week of Lent, Starting March 12
Remember not against us the iniquities of the past; may your compassion embrace us.Psalm 79:8“Can you let this not be about you?” the pastor asked as Jane tried to explain her resistance and guilt. Evening darkened the small office just outside the tumultuous emergency department. There Read More...
Advent Reflection for the First Week of Lent
...me become false separations from others and the love of God.Lent invites us again to recall that we are fearfully and wonderfully made by God in whose words and love we find our truest life. What daily temptation is the most challenging for you? Read More...
Advent Reflection for the Second Week of Lent
...Good News. Or like the disciples, would we fall silent, be afraid and not tell anyone what we had se... or based solely on the symptoms they present?The Lenten season calls us to share our vulnerability ...im.How is God speaking to you in your daily life? Read More...
Reflection for the 3rd Week of Lent
...e.Turn around …a call to change and conversion. Lent’s call to repentance is a call to turn around. When we repent, much like running into our home for forgotten keys or turning around on the interstate due to mixed up directions, we seek something we’ve forgotten and reorien Read More...
Reflection for the Fourth Week of Lent
...o easily overcome and must be honestly dealt with.Lent is a time for each of us to consider what rel...e aren’t able to give the same to ourselves.Lent asks us to shed our close-mindedness as well ...g others beyond their failings or accomplishments.Lent is long for a reason. The six weeks of Lent g Read More...
Reflection for Easter
...etting that we are beloved of God and belong to one another.Lent is the journey back to these two truths and they are what we celebrate this Easter. No matter what, we are beloved of God – not even death can separate us, and in spite of all that may point to the contrary, we belong to one anot Read More...
Reflection for the Fifth Week of Lent
...ash; waiting to see if stones would be thrown?The season of Lent offers similar juxtaposition amid a period of waiting: we wait for the winter cold to dwindle and anxiously look for the spring sun to lure us out of hibernation, while, liturgically, Jesus awaits his painful journey to the Cross only Read More...
