Category: Lent ’07

My Lenten meditations for the year 2007

Lent 07: Day 40 – Hidden Events

 William  April 7, 2007  1 Comment on Lent 07: Day 40 – Hidden Events

Yesterday they crucified him. Then before sundown put him in a tomb that a compassionate soul had provide for him. The cold tomb was sealed by a large stone and guards were set around it to prevent “false claims” being…

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Lent 07: Day 39 – Love Nailed Down

 William  April 6, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 39 – Love Nailed Down

It only took five days to transform the raucous cheers into adamant jeers and the palm branches spread at his feet into hard cold iron, driven into the rough wood beneath his hand. As I said earlier in the week,…

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Lent 07: Day 38 – In the Garden

 William  April 5, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 38 – In the Garden

Dinner is over. We are in the garden. Jesus agonizes in prayer, while Peter and James and John sleep soundly a short distance away. It is fitting. Everything began in a garden and it is there that one decision brought…

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Lent 07: Day 37 – The Inexorable Demand

 William  April 4, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 37 – The Inexorable Demand

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…

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Lent 07: Day 36 – The Turning Gyre

 William  April 3, 2007  1 Comment on Lent 07: Day 36 – The Turning Gyre

Carl Jung wrote: “Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil. ” Saint Francis, in the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon, speaks these words from the title track, performed by Donovan. If you want your dream to be…

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Lent 07: Day 35 – The Praise of Strangers

 William  April 2, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 35 – The Praise of Strangers

I am sure that the disciples thought they had turned a corner after yesterday’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when crowd threw itself at Jesus. Maybe they didn’t come to Jerusalem to die after all. Now with the crowd on their…

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Lent 07: Day 34S – Making Memories and Remembering

 William  April 1, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 34S – Making Memories and Remembering

The last few days have had a similar theme. Little did I know when I wrote on Friday about Making Memories With God that Saturday would bring me into contact with a family who took that seriously. Then this morning,…

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Lent 07: Day 34 – Memories, History, and Family Generations

 William  March 31, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 34 – Memories, History, and Family Generations

Today was a special day. I had a photography assignment covering the family reunion of large African-American clan, which by any measure are a group of blessed and special people. This assemblage of men, women, and children trace their heritage…

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Lent 07: Day 33 – Making Memories With God

 William  March 30, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 33 – Making Memories With God

Part of why some people stick in our minds over the years is because they are part of memories that stand out from the rest. You could say we have made significant memories with them. One of the things that…

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Lent 07: Day 32 – How Far To Go?

 William  March 29, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 32 – How Far To Go?

I am a writer and I am working on what will eventually become a series of novels on the life of Moses. I love Moses (hence the tie-in to our Lenten theme). His was a unique life and one that…

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