Resistance and Resilience: Liberty

May 24, 2025 On this Memorial Day Weekend in the United States, we remember and honor those countless men and women who gave their lives for our freedom and who fought to safeguard our democracy throughout our unfortunate history of war. With those freedoms and our democracy being threatened this very day, I am pleasedContinue reading "Resistance and Resilience: Liberty"

Resistance and Resilience: 1

Enos Mills, the "Father of the Rockies," traveled throughout the Rocky Mountains for years, communing with animals rather than killing them for food or safety. May 20, 2025 A couple of days ago, I introduced a new theme for this blog: https://spiritreflectionsorg.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=4817&action=edit. I extended an invitation to all artists to join this gathering place, envisioningContinue reading "Resistance and Resilience: 1"

An Invitation to Resistance and Resilience

May 15, 2025 Over the next several months, or perhaps years, I'll be concentrating on the themes of resistance as an act of courage and resilience as an act of resistance through the use of the arts. I recently hiked the Rocky Mountains and was captured by both actions expressed in nature all around me,Continue reading "An Invitation to Resistance and Resilience"

Saturday of Holy Week ~ Silence

April 19, 2025 For years now, every Saturday before Easter Sunday, the final words of Prince Hamlet as he lay dying come to me: "The rest is silence." In regard to Holy Week, the false conviction, illegal trial, and immoral death sentence of an innocent man are over. And so we wait . . .Continue reading "Saturday of Holy Week ~ Silence"

Friday of Holy Week ~ Forsaken

April 18, 2025 With the current events of the world, and especially in my own country, the States, feeling forsaken is becoming a more regular occurrence, forsaken by friends, by representatives, by the president. Then there are the forsaken graduate students who are being unconstitutionally jailed and deported, forsaken federal workers who no longer haveContinue reading "Friday of Holy Week ~ Forsaken"

Thursday of Holy Week:  Remembering to Wash Feet

April 17, 2025 Today’s appointed gospel is from John 13:1-15, where at the Passover dinner (the Last Supper), Jesus washes the feet of his twelve closest friends. A colleague and I once discussed why foot washing isn’t considered a sacrament in the traditional Church. The basis for the two sacraments that Protestants observe, baptism andContinue reading "Thursday of Holy Week:  Remembering to Wash Feet"

Wednesday of Holy Week ~ Betrayal

April 15, 2025 Betrayal.  One of the harshest words and most painful actions. We’ve no doubt all experienced a heart-rending betrayal at some time in our lives, and we’re fortunate if it’s only been one.  And, we’ve probably all betrayed someone else (or ourselves) at some time in our lives. Today’s gospel passage (John 13:Continue reading "Wednesday of Holy Week ~ Betrayal"

Tuesday of Holy Week ~ The Invitation

April 15, 2025 The priest and theologian Henri Nouwen wrote, “Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.” I wonder what the Greeks in today’s gospel passage discerned when they met Jesus as described in John 12: 20-33. After askingContinue reading "Tuesday of Holy Week ~ The Invitation"

Monday of Holy Week ~ Do Not Be Afraid

April 14, 2025 I keep a stack of notecards with quotations on them that have touched me over the years. Today’s message is, “Do not be afraid,” mentioned as early as the Book of Genesis when God makes a covenant with Abraham all the way through scripture to the Book of Revelation: "Do not be afraid;Continue reading "Monday of Holy Week ~ Do Not Be Afraid"