Lent II: What is your cross? Jesus doesn’t say go out and find your cross. Just open your eyes. Look around you, see the pain and struggle and human need around you, and pick it up and follow him. It’s the secret to living a real life.
Lent I: If you have the courage to face this wilderness within and around you, you will encounter temptations, for sure. But you will also discover the strength of God.
Ash Wednesday: “Remember that you are dust” is tremendous good news for us, because it is true; it returns us to reality. And tonight, if we can begin to accept it, we will be deeper and freer.
The Last Sunday After the Epiphany: She reached out her hand and touched the stone bathed in color, and she began to trace its light and its movement, and she was so immersed in this light that she seemed to glow from within.
Ephiphany IV: Every Sunday it is as if Christ stands in our midst, ready to give us the peace and strength we need. We come for our weekly dose of words and music, and of the bread and wine of the Eucharist, what the ancient church called “the medicine of the soul.”
Inaugural Prayer Service: Even in these tough times, we can feed the good wolf, listen to the better angels of our nature. We can choose the fast of God’s desiring.