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Tuesday, February 24  “The Gift at the End” …then the Lord God formed man [“adama”–the human one] from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.  Genesis 2:7 One of the people I’ve admired most for his wisdom, understanding, compassion and undiminished […]

  Monday, February 23   “Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to […]

Sunday, February 22 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. 24Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. […]

Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015   “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.”  –Hebrews 13:2     I was trying hard not to cry.  An hour before, I had joined the crowd of people lining up against the wall; someone had spread the rumor […]

Friday, Feb 20 When Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the realm of God.”  Matthew 10:14   Will you miss me when I’m gone? Did you even know that I was here? I don’t have flashy feathers […]

Thursday, February 19, 2015  The Road to Sacredness …and in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as one carries a child, all the way that you traveled until you reached this place.   Deuteronomy 1:31 Sometimes it’s not the words spoken that make a conversation sacred so much […]

Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Teach me your way, O God, that I may walk in your truth…”  Psalm 86:11 Eight years ago, we planned to have an Ash Wednesday Labyrinth Walk.  It fit our Lenten theme of “Journey” perfectly.  On the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, we had arranged for a labyrinth specialist to come help […]

Saturday, April 19, 2014 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, ‘The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise […]

Friday, April 18, 2014 From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 46And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ –Matthew 27:45-46 What does it mean for our lives that Jesus felt […]

Thursday, April 17, 2014 He came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples followed him. When he reached the place, he said to them, ‘Pray that you may not come into the time of trial.’ Then he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and […]