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HOW IS GOD LOVING ME – AND WHERE IS GOD LEADING ME?
Devotional thoughts for the Lenten season
Have I been with you all this time… and you still do not know me? “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would… Continue Reading “Palm Sunday- Have I been with you all this time…?”
Tomorrow we will enter into Holy Week. I have been richly blessed in recent years to have learned from such spiritual contemplatives as Richard Rohr, Philip Gulley and Rob Bell. One new perspective that truly has helped me, is the insight that God is… Continue Reading “Preface to Holy Week (and Readings)”
Why do you trouble the woman? Now while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table. But… Continue Reading “April 4th- Why do you trouble the woman?”
If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet… Continue Reading “April 3rd- If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe…?”
What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? What then did you go out to see? As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A… Continue Reading “April 2nd- What did you go out into the wilderness to look at…?”
(This meditation was written back in February, but it takes on deeper significance today. This pandemic is challenging our world in so many ways- and we need the eternal and relevant wisdom of Jesus more than ever.) Friend, who set me to be… Continue Reading “April 1st- Who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?”
Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? While he was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers were standing outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to… Continue Reading “March 31st- Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”
Why do you ask me about what is good? Then someone came to him and said, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?” And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only… Continue Reading “March 30th- Why do you ask me about what is good?”
Why are you afraid, you of little faith? And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. A windstorm arose on the sea, so great that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. And they went and… Continue Reading “March 28th- Why are you afraid, you of little faith?”
Do you believe that I am able to do this? As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, crying loudly, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said… Continue Reading “March 27th- Do you believe that I am able to do this?”
Simply Soul Searching 