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It is Wednesday night. The small band is staying somewhere in Jerusalem and by this time tomorrow night they will be in Gethsemane, falling asleep. Jesus, on the other hand, will be dealing with the crushing weight of the inexorable…

Today is the Sunday in which the Church celebrates the angel appearing to Mary and telling her she was to bear God’s Son. It is called the Feast of the Annunciation. One of my favorite paintings is of this event,…

Coming out of a Reformed view of the world in my early Christian formation, I believe that God has a plan for each of us, set within the context of his overall plan for humanity as a whole, and he…

Only fifteen days left in our Lenten observance. This need to write something each night (can’t write in the morning…I leave for work at 6 am), has been good for me. Though, trying to be erudite when you are tired…

Sometimes love is tired. The eleven disciples who shared the end of the Passover meal with Jesus all claimed to love him. They all said that they would die with him if necessary and of course would never deny him….

There seems to be a lot of people wanting prayer to be a conversation or talking with God. I guess, depending how you define conversation and talking, you could stretch them into prayer, but for me, the limiting factor is…

Rather than wait till I have enough energy for longer posts (as is my custom), I have decided to just post short observations for a while. As I mentioned in the last post, Solomon said that as his knowledge increased…

Like earlier this week, I have moved the meditation on the last seven words of Jesus to a separate posting. Having recently left the desert, the fifth phrase, “I am thirsty,” would seem an appropriate meditation, if it where not…