How the Blood Red Thread of Easter Hope Can Change You
Reading Time: 3 minutes After we buried my dad, my world was as dark as death. Every time we visited the cemetery, I would …
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poetry
Mixing Our Tears with Jesus’ Blood: A Good Friday Poem
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mary’s Loss: Death When people think of paradox, they often think of contradiction and confusion. Good Friday is that kind …
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How Jesus Gives a Damn about our Suffering: A Maundy Thursday Poem
Reading Time: 3 minutes The first time I celebrated Easter as something more than bunnies and colored eggs was in 1973. I’d become a …
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A Prayer Against Violence: An Honest Conversation with God
Reading Time: 3 minutes Like you I’ve been trying to process the most recent senseless killings in Boulder (and Atlanta). I’ve started several …
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Praying Like a Child: A Childlike Prayer for You
Reading Time: 3 minutes Philip Yancey’s book Prayer: Does It make Any Difference? opens with this: “When a doctoral student at Princeton asked, …
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What I Want to Tell My Mom Today
Reading Time: 3 minutes We were all amazed you hacked heaven out of a patch of dirt between a parking lot filled with second-hand cars and the apartment building you managed filled with second-hand people. You loved both the roses and the people nearly equally. I don’t know if you know, that rose garden is still there, seventeen years after you last fertilized it. Thank you, Mom. You reflected a beautiful but hardscrabble God to us in that rose garden and in your very life! I love you.
Waiting for Communion Holy Saturday
Reading Time: < 1 minute Waiting. How did Jesus’ disciples feel on that dark Saturday after Jesus was crucified? Remembering the emptiness, grief, fear, disbelief, …