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HOW IS GOD LOVING ME – AND WHERE IS GOD LEADING ME?
Yearly devotions for the Lenten season
Could you not stay awake with me one hour? Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took with him Peter and the two sons of… Continue Reading “Maundy Thursday- Could you not stay awake with me one hour?”
Do you know what I have done to you? After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and… Continue Reading “April 8th- Do you know what I have done to you?”
But who do you say that I am? Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and… Continue Reading “April 7th- But who do you say that I am?”
Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink? Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling before him, she asked a favor of him. And he said to her, “What do you… Continue Reading “April 6th- Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?”
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?”
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