Give and gifts will be given to you;a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing,will be poured into your lap.For the measure with which you measurewill in return be measured out to you. Luke 37-38 I remember when Pope Francis visited Congress several years back (2015) and he used this scripture to illustrate his…
Lent Thing: Less Grievance/More Gratitude The final sentance in today’s readings was: “Do to others whatever you would have them do to you, this is the law and the prohets” Matt 7:12 I sat on this most of the day because I was torn between all of the readings. But this was the one that…
“A clean heart create for me, God; renew in me a steadfast spirit.” Psalm 51: 12 This line is from one of the Penitential Psalms. It is in the middle where the psalmist is changing from asking for forgiveness for his sins and replacing it with asking to be drawn closer to God. A clean…
Less Grievance/More Holiness It has been a tough time at my work. With my pastor leaving everything is uncertain and in flux. Since it is Lent, there is little rest as I try to maintain the online presence and the programs activities. I do this while being part time (ha!!). It is my youngest daughters’…
I am going to have to apologize for my lack of content but I have spent several hours trying to get this blog up and running again and all being done by trial and error. But in the spirit of Lent, “less grievance/more gratitude” I will leave it at that. I hope you subscribe to…
repurposed post “A clean heart create for me O God, renew in me a steadfast spirit. Do not drive from me your presence, nor take from me your holy spirit.” Psalm 51: 12-13 I have been lingering in the Psalms for a while with this one being one of my favorites. I have verse 12…
Happy Lent! I am so charged to be back! I have been in a serious dryspell with writing, (thus the plant)
“As one face differs from another, so does one human heart from another” Proverbs 27:19 I think too often we make the mistake of thinking that each of us are meant to be on the same path or at the same place in our human experience because we share the same faith or at least…
From today’s reading; Mt. 25:34-40 “Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger…
Today’s First reading from Isaiah made me choke on my coffee. Thus says the Lord GOD: Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Tell my people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins. They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, Like…