I found myself in a new place among unfamiliar faces this past weekend, but sharing in a very familiar tradition—the passing of tiny cups of juice and bitty cubes of bread while old, old verses were read: In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant […]
Death has a way of making life seem short, and fragile and precious. It invades the comfortable rhythm of our commonplace days with a shocking finality! How can a friend, a spouse, a mother, be here one day in all her happy idiosyncrasies and gone the next? Death does not come in a predictable way. […]
…it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. Ps.147:1 Morning. And with my feet landing on the floor came a nudge to remember to SING, to bless the Lord, to keep my focus there…I needed the reminder. I find it easy to obsess […]
I must add a note to the Peter Story.* I’ve just been reading a new book called “He Loves Me” and came upon this quote: The doorway into the Father’s love begins at the cross. Seeing what Father and Son accomplished together in that climactic moment defines love in a way that you can only […]