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Category: Speaking to the Soul

A Prayer for Holy Week

March 27, 2018 No Comments

The days say to us: Enter. Come experience. Come live. Come savor. These days are ours to know. Ours to enter. Ours to walk.

Holy Week Feet

March 26, 2018 1 Comment

We are in it now, the last race, the last heartbreaking mile. Yesterday we walked with our Lord as he entered Jerusalem’s Eastern Gate astride

Listen to the announcements God is making to you this week. Be encouraged in the tenderness of a friend, or the naked vulnerability of a brave spring daffodil. These are announcements about the kind of kingdom that will come when at last Jesus’s prayer is answered:

Commemoration of Óscar Romero

March 24, 2018 No Comments

Romero was a hero to his people and, after his death, his countrymen and others within civil rights communities around the world considered him a saint for his stand against oppression and cruelty. That he should die, especially in the way that he did, just increased the visibility of the problems.

Image of a stone wall in a garden with a passage through it

My Own Personal Holy Week

March 23, 2018 6 Comments

There is a huge uncertain gap between theory and practice. My mom and I had many discussions about death after she was diagnosed but now that we are walking the actual walk much that seemed certain is no longer so.

For God All Things are Possible

March 22, 2018 2 Comments

This youngster was, after all, a devout fellow. He was someone who would not have been able to simply forget what Jesus had said to him. He would have wondered . . . doubted . . . questioned. Over time eternal life might have grown more attractive and his riches less so. One way or another God would have claimed him eventually.

Fixing the Heart

March 21, 2018 1 Comment

Almighty God, you alone can bring order to the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and

A Note of thanks for all the Music Makers

March 20, 2018 No Comments

The music draws me in. As I walk up the steps I hear the music playing. The music welcoming me with its melody. The sounds reminding me of churches past and the organ music that kept playing. The music that always keeps singing.

Casting Out Demons for Lent

March 19, 2018 No Comments

Lent, if followed devoutly, opens us all up to a lot of places where we probably would rather not have looked. And those places are where demons dwell, or where demons can find the food of discontent, uneasiness, regret, even despair, and move in with their demonic friends.

Gum Up The Works

March 18, 2018 2 Comments

Honestly, I do think that surviving this world with your soul intact is the most heroic thing we can do. When you embark on that journey, though, all the forces of darkness will try to crush you