Lent
Epiphany and Lent speak to one another
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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A Lenten Prayer of Invitation
Come Work your hands in the clay of your heart. Shape of this pause a bowl, for Loveresonant
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The Skin and Heart of It
It’s the day after the vivid day of palms; and I stand on the edge of emptiness, in the aftermath that is also preparation. I hold what keeps me tethered to the movement that will free me. I turn, as I so often do in this time, to a text I can feel in my…
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Lent Five: Hearts Looking
This week we gathered around the story of Zacchaeus, another story of heart and seeing. We reflected on a Zacchaeus sermon Seeing Saints which you can find in an earlier blog post. And we drew close to the Compassionate One as we reminded ourselves of that gospel we often forget, that we are not…
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Heartbreak: Lent Two
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Heart to Heart: Lent One
I’m keeping company this Lent with a group of wise women. We’re considering courage, from the old French word coeur meaning ‘heart’. We’re coming together to be a Lenten community that nurtures the practice of living heart-to-heart, asking ourselves what practices will encourage us to resist strategies of invulnerability. How will we consider our…
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Prayer for the Road
God of setting out and arrival and the road between, we lay down, with reverent attention those things that we have taken up to protect us – from You and from one another.
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