Lent: Day Thirty-five(b)
I have decided to put this posting on the second of the seven last words of Jesus in its own post. I dont think its context worked well with my discussion on the seeds of life in Death Valley. Last…
Categories: Lent
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…
Categories: Lent, Photography
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…
Categories: Lent
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…
Categories: Lent
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…
Categories: Lent
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day
William March 17, 2005
Saint Patrick, patron saint of the Irish, was actually a highborn Roman Englishman who was captured and sold into slavery in Ireland when he was sixteen. Born in 387, he lived to the ripe old age (for any time not…
Categories: Christianity
Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: God Incarnate
For those of you who love dealing with the hard questions and the deepest mysteries, chapter five of Knowing God addresses the greatest mystery of the Christian faith, the incarnation of God the Son, the second person of the Trinity,…
Categories: Knowing God
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…
Categories: Lent
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…
Categories: Lent
Love And Death
William March 16, 2005
Sometimes, while reading something I get inspired and if I seize the moment a poem appears, for the well touched by an a sudden insight can run deep and long and should not be untested. I was looking at the…
Categories: Poetry
