Lent is over. It ended tonight at the Easter Vigil. Somewhere during the readings (creation, the flood and the ark, crossing the sea, Ezekiel and the dry bones), Lent just slipped away. Actually, if I had to guess, Lent made its final exit during the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego being thrown into the fiery furnace (Daniel 4). It was all I could do to keep from … [Read more...] about 40th day of Lent
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Day 39 and 1/2 of Lent
"Where you there when they crucified my Lord?"All the atoms that momentarily make up my body were here and there on this shaken, darkened earth that very afternoon when my Lord was crucified. But more than that, before I was born, I was already known by the God and Son unbound by time. Yes, I was there.Where you there when they nailed him to the tree?"My failures to heed … [Read more...] about Day 39 and 1/2 of Lent
Day 38, Maundy Thursday and Day 39, Good Friday
...God in mercy saw us fallen, sunk in shame and misery,felled to death in Eden's garden, where in pride we claimed the tree;then another tree was chosen, which the world from death would free....Bend your boughs, O tree of glory, your relaxing sinews bend;for a while the ancient rigor that your birth bestowed, suspend;and the Lord of heav'nly beauty gently on your arms … [Read more...] about Day 38, Maundy Thursday and Day 39, Good Friday