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 haveContinueContinue reading “Friday of Holy Week ~ Forsaken”
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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 andContinueContinue 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:ContinueContinue 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 askingContinueContinue reading “Tuesday of Holy Week ~ The Invitation”
Vermont Night
April 12, 2025 Vermont Night “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Somewhere outside of Montpeliermiles from the lights of townwith autumn approachingbut not yetI stand under the night skyand gaze up.Such a simple actraising my face to nightmy sight to lightafterContinueContinue reading “Vermont Night”
Spring Ephemerals
Spring wildflowers, March 19, 2025 Ephemerals(plants that flower briefly once in the spring) I walk the woods seeking spring’s ephemerals,turning leaf and rock like a child seeks treasures, here in the woods of the Creek, the Cherokee,here where the creek clatters freely down limestone. Here mottled trilliums blanket the floor;hepatica’s white petals blanket the moss.ContinueContinue reading “Spring Ephemerals”
Advent 2024: Passion and Dream
Advent Day Twenty, December 20, 2024 “The Christmas stories are not about a spectacular series of miraculous events that happened in the past that we are to believe in for the sake of going to heaven. Rather, they are about God’s passion, God’s dream, for a transformed earth.” Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, TheContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: Passion and Dream”
Advent 2024: See
Advent Day 19, December 19, 2024 As the days of Advent-waiting move us ever closer to the Light, I reflect on how we can continue to be Advent People who carry the light together, especially after the tree is taken down and the ornaments placed in their dusty boxes and the calendar flipped to 2025.ContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: See”
Advent 2024: Fog
Advent Day 18, December 18, 2024 The above photo shows the view from my kitchen window yesterday morning. At this time of year, with the leaves gone, I can usually see the traffic below on one of the busiest roads into the city, but not yesterday. Fog snaked low across the valley before descending over the roadContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: Fog”
Advent 2024: Gaudete Sunday
Advent Day 15, December 15, 2024 For those who incorporate an Advent wreath into their Advent traditions, today is the day to light the pink candle, the Joy Candle. Known by its Latin term, Gaudete Sunday, this third Joyful Sunday in Advent reminds us that we are almost “there,” that the waiting for the Christ-LightContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: Gaudete Sunday”
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