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Category: Speaking to the Soul

Speaking to the Soul: On washing feet

April 2, 2015 No Comments

‘Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. So

Speaking to the Soul: This Hour

April 1, 2015 1 Comment

Today’s reflection takes only a minute to read, but it should fill an hour (at least!) with your purpose and God’s glory.

Speaking to the Soul: Shout Alleluia! Come-on Get Holy!

March 31, 2015 No Comments

God created us for holiness… it must be the objective of our lives, as well as our way of life. It is a process as much as it is a product… a journey as much as a destination.

Speaking to the Soul: A Clean Start

March 30, 2015 No Comments

Monday mornings–especially Monday morning of Holy Week!–are great opportunities for a clean start. A few verses from the Psalms help us all start over.

Speaking to the Soul: Why, God…? Just why…?

March 29, 2015 No Comments

All we really have for Holy Week and beyond is the presence of a God who stands with us and who has prayed all the desperate, unanswered prayers that we too have prayed. He is there, hanging on a tree.

Speaking to the Soul: Requiem

March 28, 2015 1 Comment

Lent and Holy Week are about Jesus but it is also about us. It’s about our mortality and the promise of rest and resurrection. Perhaps the sound of the requiem is to be a comfort to us. The march to the cross leads not to a requiem but rather a celebration of life.

Speaking to the Soul: Settle in and Get Comfortable

March 27, 2015 No Comments

Does it sometimes feel like God’s calling us long-distance? Today we listen for a better connection.

Speaking to the Soul: Just tell us

March 26, 2015 No Comments

But the Master’s voice is not speaking here. I know because I suddenly hear it, very faint, very far away. I have to stop all talking, all moving, even all thinking, and turn around. It’s coming from somewhere out there, out beyond the Jordan, in the uncivilized, unnamed places.

Speaking to the Soul: Baring his Arm

March 25, 2015 No Comments

God rolls up his sleeve and flexes some muscle on this Feast of the Annunciation.

Speaking to the Soul: It is finished

March 24, 2015 No Comments

For forty days we have walked the way of repentance. We have been taught the lesson of forgiveness. Now, from the cross, Jesus tells us: It is finished. We are saved. We are forgiven.