Lord Jesus Christ, our savior and friend,you are the way;walk with me in your way today.Let your life spring up in me,your love flow through me,your peace extend to all I meet,your surrounding Spirit protect me.Plant your word deep in my heartthat I may know your voice and not wander.Give me strength and courage for the challenges of this dayand joy in noticing your grace upon … [Read more...] about 22nd day of Lent
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21st day of Lent
This Sunday we will have learned ASL signs to the whole section of Mark 12: 29-31. I know we are too English to be doing the syntax of ASL correctly. We are leaving out words that an ASL communicator would need to understand the meaning. But the gift of having bodily ways to say certain words is helping us learn the scripture with our hearts, muscles, bones and bodies.I … [Read more...] about 21st day of Lent
20th day of Lent
In the countdown of Lent, we are half way there.Halfway to where? To 40 days?To where God is leading us in this time of learning by heart what Jesus named as the two greatest commandments.By now we have it memorized. By now we have tucked it into our hearts. By now it is becoming routine to say it at various times in the day. By now we have begun to share stories about how it … [Read more...] about 20th day of Lent
19th day of Lent
OK, nothing about dogs and snow geese today. (See previous posts)Ever since my sabbatical pilgrimage, I have tried to end each day with "grace upon grace," (John 1). It is a moment to reflect upon the day and see how God's grace has been woven into it.Grace upon grace: two of us pastors didn't get the message that the rest were meeting for sermon text study at another church. … [Read more...] about 19th day of Lent
18th day of Lent
Is this the Lent of snow geese, or what?I am sitting in my living room reading, and the warm spring-like day has dissolved into dark coolness. I think I hear geese in the distance, but it is not the familiar honk of Canada geese. I open the front door and walk out on the porch to listen.From about a half mile away, somewhere in the night sky, drift sounds. The mellow honkings … [Read more...] about 18th day of Lent