Lenten Devotional 2015

Thursday, March 26   Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes* for what is seen? 25But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.  –Romans 8:24-25 A week ago, more than 80 people from Framingham gathered for a sacred conversation about race– “Framingham Coming Together.”  We […]

Tuesday, March 24 …that they may be one, as we are.  John 17:11 I awoke Thursday to the news that my friend Marcia had been killed, hit by a truck while on her bicycle.  I’d known her for nearly 40 years.  She was a founding member of the New Harmony Sisterhood Band, one of the […]

Monday, March 23 “The wise of heart is called perceptive, and pleasant speech increases persuasiveness. Wisdom is a fountain of life to one who has it, but folly is the punishment of fools. The mind of the wise makes their speech judicious, and adds persuasiveness to their lips. Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness […]

  Sunday, March 22, 2015 About noon the next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat; and while it was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw the heaven opened and something like […]

Saturday, March 21   Listen, and hear my voice; Pay attention, and hear my speech.  Isaiah 28:23 More than a decade ago, I participated in an spirituality class called “Faith before Faithfulness.”  Six people from Edwards Church committed to five meetings and a retreat, focusing on spiritual practices designed to open us to a deeper […]

  Friday, March 20   “On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there.” [Acts 16:13] Two weeks ago, two conversations with my wife, Sara, got me thinking about the […]

Thursday, March 19    ‘Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.–Matthew 10:34 Shortly after I came to Edwards, the Framingham Human Relations Commission invited residents to participate in small groups to explore issues of race and diversity.  I signed […]

Wednesday, March 18   “Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?” -Luke 12:24-25 (NRSV)   I’ve been through […]

Tuesday, March 17 Great Egret Preening   Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant  or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;  it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.  It bears all things, believes all things, […]

Monday, March 16 Amazed and astonished, they asked, ‘Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language?   –Acts 2:17-18 I had tried to learn a little Spanish before the trip.  I bought a CD and listened in the car; I […]