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I noticed one afternoon a rustling in my pansy flower planter on my balcony porch. Out flies a wren. As I watched another wren appeared with a decomposing leaf. They are building a nest for their new family. So, what about my pansies? Do I try watering them carefully not…
And he said to them … was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory? The disciples who met Jesus on the road did not expect the messiah to die. Indeed, why Jesus had to die is a question that has puzzled people…
Here in the Northern Hemisphere, as spring seriously settles in, we are given a balm to soothe our weary, stressed and anxious souls. The COVID-19 pandemic can turn our days to a monochromatic drama of fear, uselessness and cabin fever. Our personal identity is often bound up with how many…
Although you have not seen him you love him; even though you do not see him now yet believe in him, you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy… (1 Peter 1:8, 2nd reading for this Sunday). Faith is our puzzle for today. Our Gospel is about the apostle Thomas,…
be still and know that I am GOD in noise in hope in grief in family in faith in wisdom in who to trust in social distancing in financial worries in wellness in privilege in blessing of time in silence in betrayal in solitude in sickness in hope in…
Earthquakes, fortunately mostly just small ones, were regular occurrences in California where I lived for 15 years. Matthew’s Gospel uses earthquakes like exclamation points! When Jesus dies, the earth quaked, rocks were split… (27:51). In our Easter Gospel, when the women approach the tomb to look for Jesus’ body, there…
This is not the Lenten season any of us would have expected. Annually Lent is a time of grace, a time we choose to do some serious spiritual housecleaning. As one homilist put it: it is the spring training of our spiritual lives. A time to brush up on basic…
Does it seem odd that during Lent, on the 2nd Sunday of Lent, we hear the Gospel about the transfiguration of Jesus? In that story, Peter, James and John are given an energizing and inspiring vision of the Lord in glory. Today we read the Passion account of Matthew where…
It was only March 3, but the daffodils were already pushing up through the ground: tender green shoots. Four days later and even though the temperatures had hovered near freezing for several nights, buds had appeared. A warmer winter and a south-facing flower bed had convinced these hardy harbingers of…
In the film classic The Wizard of Oz, after the tornado dumps Dorothy’s house on the wicked witch of the East, the Munchkin coroner sings: I thoroughly examined her, And she’s not only merely dead, She’s really most sincerely dead! I always chuckle when I hear this Sunday’s Gospel about…
