Posted in Gospels, Lectionary, Lent on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Lent calls us to step aside from our ordinary routines, to spend time listening to God, to believe that we can tell our stories in a new way. The word of God challenges us to explore the story of our faith once more and discover for ourselves that Jesus really is “the savior of the [...]
Posted in Bible study, Homilies, Lectionary, Lent on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in his Letters to a Young Poet, “…have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and…try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you [...]
Posted in Gospels, Jesus, Lectionary, Lent, Transfiguration on February 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Lent, perhaps more than any other season, gives us permission to focus on our spiritual lives, to take time apart from the everyday demands to listen to what God might be asking of us. Today’s Scripture readings can seem beyond us, describing those events that we might label “Significant Religious Experiences,” things that happen to [...]
Posted in Gospels, Homilies, Lectionary, Uncategorized on February 3, 2008 | No Comments »
In Madeleine L’Engle’s novel A Wrinkle in Time, 12-year-old Meg Murry sets off with her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, and her best friend, Calvin O’Keefe, to find her father, who disappeared into space several years before. A trio of supernatural beings, manifested as eccentric old women known only as Mrs Who, Mrs Which and Mrs [...]
