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Lent Day Seven: Lakshmana

February 20, 2024 “We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, ‘Why me?’ unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.” Lakshmana On this seventh day of Lent, I’m not quite sure how this quotation came my way.  As best I can discover, Lakshmana is a character inContinueContinue reading “Lent Day Seven: Lakshmana”

The Meaning of Joy in Advent

In the Christian tradition, the focus or theme of the third week of the four-week season of Advent is joy.  In this dark time of year, in a “holiday” season that for many of us will be different from what it has ever been before, where do we find joy?  If this is our firstContinueContinue reading “The Meaning of Joy in Advent”