Lent

Giving ourselves like alms

March 8, 2024
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Weeks into Lent, some of us may be dipping into those books of Lenten reflections more sporadically than we had hoped.  We may feel a bit untethered from whatever observance we had intended.  What do we do?  Give up? Begin again? Or something else. It’s long been important to me, as I inhabit Lent, to…

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Epiphany and Lent speak to one another

February 20, 2023
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Tomorrow is the last day of the Epiphany season; those days of wild stars and journey, of new sight, sometimes beautiful, sometimes painful, sometimes a poignant mingling of the two. If you’ve read my two earlier posts, Bending Into Advent and Portals to Joy, you’ll know that sight has been much on my mind during…

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If, but . . . and in between

April 1, 2020
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Last Sunday we just touched this text and thinking of it during the week, I recalled this sermon I wrote several years ago. It asks a question pertinent to this time of pandemic this time that troubles us mightily.

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Gathering for Worship March 22nd – Lent 4

March 23, 2020
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A Touching Place

April 18, 2019
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On this nightwe know you as loving hostand beloved guest.On this night we follow you to the edge of your sorrow,a sorrow that holds all our own.On this night, O Christ of table and touch,Our longings mingle.

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The Hollow in our Hearts

April 15, 2019
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Here we are on the edge of Holy Week.  The parade is over; spent petals and tattered banners still blow down the empty streets.  Some have stuck their palm fronds in the planters round the lamp posts. Some have forgotten their coats and there is a tiny sneaker on the curb.  The air has caught…

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cross of ashes in snow

Love’s you are

March 15, 2019
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Dust you are; to dust you will return. Love’s you are; to Love you will return. I’ve just lit a fire in the woodstove of the small cottage where I’m spending this Ash Wednesday. I first removed some of the copious ashes of last night’s warm and companionable fire. Those aren’t the ashes I will…

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A Lenten Prayer of Invitation

March 17, 2018
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Come Work your hands in the clay of your heart. Shape of this pause a bowl, for Loveresonant

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The Eyes of the Heart

March 24, 2017
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    Last week we practiced Visio Divina, Sacred Seeing, allowing ourselves to be called through a curve or a cloud or a colour deep into memory and silence;  to allow the press of the divine on our lids, to receive new sight.  I remembered the sacred seeing of the man whose lids Jesus touched. …

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Don’t Be Afraid

July 1, 2015
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I didn’t intend to post today.  But I sat down to work with gathering up the worship for Sunday and began to recall conversations I’ve had over the last week about people and congregations that have become numb.  It’s an important word and the state it describes spreads insidiously.  A shot of numbness, when life…

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