Category: Lent
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Rest with God
Read More: Rest with GodOn Ash Wednesday, Christians around the world began a 40-day period of prayer, contemplation and self-examination that the church calls Lent. The ancient practice of the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday is a reminder that we are God’s beloved dust. And to dust we shall return. The creation story tells us that God made…
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Being present
Read More: Being presentThere is a poem that I find myself coming back to again and again – Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day” which she wrote in 1990. As the season now changes from winter to spring, (and though it’s not yet summer), I am reminded to take notice of my immediate world and to be present in…
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Listening …
Read More: Listening …Lent is a time of open hearts. Lent is a time to embrace the spiritual practices that bring us closer to God. God wants to be close to us too. God seeks us too. I want to invite you to practice an ancient prayer of the church – Lectio Divina which is Latin for sacred…
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“There Your Heart Will Be Also.”
Read More: “There Your Heart Will Be Also.”This past Ash Wednesday, Lent began with a reminder that God created us out of the stuff of earth, the gorgeous rich soil with lots of nutrients and hidden life, and home to thousands and thousands of God’s beautiful species of beings. We are dust creations made from gorgeous rich soil. We are wonderfully-made, beautiful,…
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Rest with God
On Ash Wednesday, Christians around the world began a 40-day period of prayer, contemplation and self-examination that the church calls Lent. The ancient practice of the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday is a reminder that we are God’s beloved dust. And to dust we shall return. The creation story tells us that God made…
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The Hummingbird & the Forest Fire
The smallest of mature birds, hummingbirds are incredibly agile and can hover, fly backward, and move in various directions. They are extraordinary creatures. Truly marvelous and beautiful creatures of God’s. The Quechua people in Peru have a story about a hummingbird – The story of the Hummingbird and the Forest Fire. It goes like this……
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A Prayer of Thanksgiving for Juneteenth
We give thanks to God for freedom and emancipation of the enslaved people. Cheated of their lives and livelihood by oppressors beyond the pale of human rights and dignity. Because of their skin they are deemed less than farm animals, these African and African American people made in the image of the Divine, praying to…