I’m trying to get the table cleared off and the extensions put away so I’ve been cleaning up piles of papers. It’s tedious going through the stacks, but I’m glad I did. I found a poem/prayer that I wrote back in 2009. Not sure how it got to the table today as these stacks have not been on the table that long!!!! Anyway – it would have been good to include in the book “Praying Our Way Through Stress: Drawing Wisdom…..
Do you love me?
Do you love me?
Do you love me?
I think the questions remain in the world today.
God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is still asking individuals
Do you love me?
If our answer is yes, we will find ourselves doing something for him.
Feeding people in body, mind or spirit.
Whenever we do that with His Spirit in us we are serving others His Love.
Jesus never asked us to…..
I had lunch with my sister today and couldn’t believe what the Lord did for me. While we were sitting there I had a flashback of something I’ve been dreaming about lately, something I usually try to push out of the way. Today, as it came I blurted out what happened. It seemed to me that I had practically screamed it – but apparently it was just a whisper because my sister said, what? And I looked at her and…..
I was giving a presentation from my book to a group of women and I asked them if they had ever been called a temptress. Eyes opened wide and I said – not a temptress in a sensual or sexual sense – most women have been called that – I’m talking about being called a temptress because you presented temptations to other people the way the devil presented them to Jesus when they were in the wilderness together.
Those encounters…..
What if you took 40 days to fast from self-loathing? It would be a wonderful form of self-discipline and act of repentance during the Lenten Season.
So many of us are in the habit of saying some very “not nice” things about ourselves and other people and even the Lord. Negative self-talk is a vicious circle that can destroy a person, a family, an organization, the world. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I include the world in the list…..
Today, I’ve been thinking about the Lenten Season and the Beginning of Jesus’ Ministry.
Several of my recent posts have the word Repentance in the title. Jesus began his ministry saying: Repent and believe in the good news! Sometimes when you listen to the news, read newspapers and listen to people talk about what is going in the world and in their lives at home, work and in the community you might wonder where the good news is that you…..
I remember being a very young child when one of my grandparents died – I looked at him in the coffin and asked the adult who was with me (rather loudly) “Why is everyone crying? He’s only sleeping, he’ll wake up, Jesus said so.” I was quickly whisked away to another room.
This morning in our small group discussion I shared briefly some of my thoughts about Jesus asking his disciples to stay awake when they were in the garden…..
In the business of our lives, in our daily pursuits it is good for us to take time to think about what it is we are pursuing and why we are pursuing it. Think about all the things people pursue – degrees, positions, prestige, trophies and awards, career satisfaction, justice, peace and finally, relationship. Far too often people put the pursuit of relationship in last place.
I titled an earlier post “Worshipping the Living God in Lent” In John’s Gospel,…..
I’ve been thinking about everything that is going on in the world and all the expressions of anger that we see taking place in small and big ways. The truth is we all struggle with anger from time to time. It is important to understand why we are angry and it is important to learn how to manage anger. Jesus, God Incarnate, managed anger well.
Jesus, born to save the world from sin, was crucified by…..
Years ago when I presented a paper that I had written at a Religious Studies Conference I asked a closing question – “Do we even know how to worship the Lord?
It seems people think of worship as attending a church service of some kind – “I’m going to a worship service.” But worshipping is more than going to a service. To me, worship is an act of service and goes beyond the formal church service regardless of how they are organized in different denominations. Many…..