A Deeper Lent & *SLOW Word Lectio Divina*
This Lent let’s not hold onto control quite so tight. This Lent let’s go deep instead of wide. Some years we choose on Ash Wednesday to let go of something that has had a strangle hold on our life. Some…
The Allure of Lent
Therefore, behold, I will allure her into the desert and speak tenderly to her. Hosea 2:14 It’s the scripture that calls me into Lent. Always. I’m hearing it again. It’s one of the reasons why I’ve been so quiet…
Day 16: Confession
We in the church have got something to confess. And it’s pretty ugly. But ugly things have to come into the light in order to be transformed. Evangelism has been used by some to be an answer to…
Day 8: Celebrating our Smallness
There is a great comfort in the knowledge that the world does not revolve around us. We rest in powerlessness. We celebrate our smallness. We have no ability to change a mind, mend a heart, plant truth, make…
Day 5: Accepting our Limitations
Today we have a treat, a guest post by Paula Gamble, a spiritual director from the Pacific Northwest. She leads ReFresh retreats and blogs here. She has a beautiful Lenten Series. Here’s an excerpt: Unhurry Up into Easter: A…
Day 4: Pruning so Good News Blooms
Pruning, though painful, causes growth. We’ve got obstacles that need to be removed and this is where the life-long work of pruning comes in, removing the sin, scooping out the suffocating fear, redirecting the anger, having our minds renovated by…
Day 1: Cross-Shaped Evangelism
Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard wood of the cross that everyone might come within the reach of your saving embrace: So clothe us in your Spirit that we, reaching forth our hands…
Fierce for our Freedom
An Eastern Starling flew down our chimney sometime in the night and started fluttering around our firebox, enclosed by the brick in the back and a glass front . She kept fluttering around, getting herself stuck around bricks and trying to…
Fasting From Chaos
I live deep in chaos. I envy Brother Lawrence, the Carmelite monk from the 1600’s with his hundreds of monastery dishes stacked. He slipped easily into practicing Your Presence, soaking in divine love. He made cathedrals of the ordinary while…
The Fast which Exposes the Dragon
Lord, how do I fast from selfishness? How do I take apart my DNA, unwind the axis and find where selfishness has hidden, beg a surgeon to take tweezers and pluck original sin? And now here’s my honest question: Do…