Category: Lent

Lent: Day Thirty-five(b)

 William  March 21, 2005

I have decided to put this posting on the second of the seven last words of Jesus in its own post. I don’t think its context worked well with my discussion on the seeds of life in Death Valley. Last…

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Lent: Day Thirty-five

 William  March 21, 2005

Today is the last Monday in my Lenten observance. My wife and daughter went out to explore Death Valley after visiting Hoover dam yesterday and I have finished my conference presentation. I can now relax a little. Death Valley and…

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Lent: Day Thirty-four-S

 William  March 20, 2005

One of the things we looked forward to on this trip to Las Vegas was visiting with some old friends, Mark and Beth Fordney. They are Young Life leaders in Henderson, NV about 10 miles outside Las Vegas. They used…

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Lent: Day Thirty-four

 William  March 19, 2005

Today has been a busy day. We needed to find a laundry to clean my daughter’s clothes as her suitcase was filled with a fine black granulated material that covered everything. We have no idea where it came from or…

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Lent: Day Thirty-three

 William  March 18, 2005

Today is travel day, and it had all of its attendant last minute problems. But in the end we made it out the door and to the airport. I find regular airline seats difficult at best. I am 6’5″ and…

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Lent: Day Thirty-two

 William  March 17, 2005

The end of Lent is almost at hand and I look forward to the familiar events ahead. Jesus has traveled to Jerusalem. The gladhanders and backslappers cut their palm branches, but then they melted away into the background when the…

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Lent: Day Thirty-one

 William  March 16, 2005  1 Comment on Lent: Day Thirty-one

My wife has noticed that it appears that I have been withdrawing and she asked me about it. I told her it was not so much withdrawal but focus along with an escalating tenseness as I prepare for my conference…

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Lent: Day Thirty

 William  March 15, 2005

Today has been a strange but good day. I didn’t get everything I wanted to done and I got drawn into a discussion with Jeremy Pierce of Parableman about The Moral Value of Meanings of Words. Our discussion focused down…

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Lent: Day Twenty-nine

 William  March 14, 2005  3 Comments on Lent: Day Twenty-nine

Another Monday and the next to last Monday in Lent. We have eleven days and Palm Sunday left in our observance. I have an idea for what to do for the last seven days in Lent, four of which find…

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Lent: Day Twenty-eight-S

 William  March 13, 2005

Sunday: rest, recovery, prayer, and planning. Next week is Palm Sunday and we will be in Las Vega, euphemistically called “sin city” but not to be confused with the new movie by that name soon to hit the megaplexes. We…

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