A true Easter basket!
April 23rd, 2019
A true Easter basket! #Easter #Spring #beauty #life
Read more >Easter Sunday
April 21st, 2019
Yesterday these tulips seemed dead and ready to be trashed. Today, with a little faith and Sunlight, they are alive and blooming with New Life. Happy Easter!
Read more >Maundy Thursday
April 18th, 2019
On Maundy Thursday, we often focus on the Last Supper. But this artist, a little girl and a target of bullies herself – decided to capture the arrest of Jesus and that heartbreaking sense of isolation and rejection where there seems to be no place to run. And yet, Jesus is unbowed. He painfully looks […]
Read more >Holy Wednesday
April 18th, 2019
Seen as we passed by a gold shop in Great Barrington, MA – a reminder that the real treasures in life can’t be weighed, sold, or bartered. #Easter #Lent #Journey #Love #BeKind #GreatBarrington #gold #treasure #realtreasure #HolyWeek2019 #HolyWednesday
Read more >Holy Week — 6 Days Until Easter
April 15th, 2019
As we enter Holy Week it’s good to ponder the times when things looked so scary and only later did we realize that it was part of the rescue! #Easter #Lent #Journey #HolyWeek #rescue
Read more >A Hero On The Dresser
July 16th, 2015
A long time ago in Illinois, maybe seventy years or so, my father worked in an office in Champaign-Urbana. It was the end of the day and one of his co-workers was running out the door to a dinner and suddenly remembered that he’d forgotten to pick up some documents for a meeting the next […]
Read more >A Brand New Start
July 8th, 2015
I found a scripture the other day that I’ve never noticed before. It’s “my voice shalt thou hear in the morning o Lord and in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee and I will look up.” That’s Psalm 5, verse 3. And it reminded me of my dad. My dad was not […]
Read more >The Other New Year… and the Rock in the Woods
July 3rd, 2015
I wonder if any of you are like me, celebrating your own personal “new year” on another day besides January 1? Of course, there are cultural new years on other days on the calendar, such as Chinese New Year. But I’m talking about the day that you might consciously or unconsciously choose as a sort […]
Read more >What Does God Look Like?
June 27th, 2015
A question to all of you today: When you think of God, what do you “see” ? I got to thinking about that this morning when I read this funny little story forwarded to me by favorite high school English teacher, Ann Campbell: A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. […]
Read more >Vibiana’s Courage
June 15th, 2015
Somewhere back in the 1800’s a crew was digging under the city of Rome, and deep in the catacombs they discovered a box with the bones of a young woman about whom we know nothing and, perhaps, everything. Her remains now lie in the new cathedral of Los Angeles, where I went for a visit […]
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