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 made. The disciples, discouraged and at a loss about what had just happened went into…
Category: Lent ’07
My Lenten meditations for the year 2007
Lent '07
Lent 07: Day 39 – Love Nailed Down
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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, people, especially crowds, are a fickle lot. One minute they will cheer you, the next…
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Lent 07: Day 38 – In the Garden
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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 death, eternal death, into the world, subjecting all of creation to futility. Now in another…
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Lent 07: Day 37 – The Inexorable Demand
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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 demand of agape, of a loving sacrifice chosen in eternity, now rushing to fulfillment in…
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Lent 07: Day 36 – The Turning Gyre
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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 Build it slow and surely. Small beginnings, greater ends Heartfelt work grows purely. If you…
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Lent 07: Day 35 – The Praise of Strangers
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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 side, the religious authorities would be unable to move against Jesus. It would cause a…
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Lent 07: Day 34S – Making Memories and Remembering
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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, during our Palm Sunday service, the sermon was on the importance of remembering. I think…
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Lent 07: Day 34 – Memories, History, and Family Generations
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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 back to one pair of grandparents. Everyone in the room was either a descendant, married…
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Lent 07: Day 33 – Making Memories With God
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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 family traditions accomplish is the making of memories and then building on those memories over…
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Lent 07: Day 32 – How Far To Go?
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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 really didn’t get started until he was eighty (see there is hope for me yet).…