Category: Lent ’07

My Lenten meditations for the year 2007

Lent 07: Day 31 – Life Without Mirrors

 William  March 28, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 31 – Life Without Mirrors

Imagine what it would be like if you had no way to see any aspect of yourself, except what you could glean by direct sight. For this little exercise I would like to include not just reflective glass or other…

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Lent 07: Day 30 – Dead Men Walking

 William  March 27, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 30 – Dead Men Walking

The Greek word for love that depends on natural affection, storgē (στοργή), is not used anywhere in the Bible. It is only used in compound forms, two of which are very striking. Paul uses the negative, without natural affection, as…

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Lent 07: Day 29 – The Resurgence of Magic

 William  March 26, 2007  3 Comments on Lent 07: Day 29 – The Resurgence of Magic

Magic and things that might as well be magic, like the abilities of the X-MEN like genetic anomalies in the television series Heroes, are everywhere these days. It has been building for a while, but whether you consider the current…

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Lent 07: Day 28-S – The Annunciation

 William  March 25, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 28-S – The Annunciation

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,…

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Lent 07: Day 28 – The Shaping of Our Lives

 William  March 24, 2007  1 Comment on Lent 07: Day 28 – The Shaping of Our Lives

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…

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Lent 07: Day 27 – Doing the Right Thing

 William  March 23, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 27 – Doing the Right Thing

How often do you admit you are wrong, that you have done something you need to apologize for or ask forgiveness for? For most of us, it is very seldom. However, as Christians, that process forms the central tenant of…

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Lent 07: Day 26 – Fathers and Sons

 William  March 22, 2007  2 Comments on Lent 07: Day 26 – Fathers and Sons

As I was driving home from work today, I noticed the man in the car next to me singing. Sometimes people sing in their cars, especially while driving rush hour traffic. It is a good way to dissipate the frustration…

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Lent 07: Day 25 – Love Tested is Love Not Denied

 William  March 21, 2007  1 Comment on Lent 07: Day 25 – Love Tested is Love Not Denied

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…

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Lent 07: Day 24 – Dealing With Disappointment

 William  March 20, 2007  0 Comments on Lent 07: Day 24 – Dealing With Disappointment

One of the hardest things in life to deal with is disappointment, such as when expectations go unmet or people unexpectedly “throw you under the bus” as the current aphorism goes. When approval, for whatever reason, is withdrawn, it bites…

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Lent 07: Day 23 – The Comforting Cowardice of Atheism

 William  March 19, 2007  3 Comments on Lent 07: Day 23 – The Comforting Cowardice of Atheism

I read that phrase in an article by John Mark Reynolds, Who’s There?. The article discusses the important question asked throughout Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Mark argues that in the play “Shakespeare has no time for the comforting cowardice of atheism,…

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