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Celebrate – He Is Risen! Alleluia!
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! After forty days of no alleluias, we bring out the word in style today, speaking it with joy and gratitude. As I say in my book, Finding Myself in Britain: We build up to Easter with a forty-day season of reflection, and yet we seem not to…
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Lenten Poems – “It is finished” (36)
On this most holy of days, I have to go straight to the crucifixion of Jesus and come back later to the wonderful Last Discourse. For on this day we remember the biggest sacrifice our Lord could have made – giving his very life that we might have new life. The story unrolls like a…
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Lenten Poems – “The True Vine” (35)
Jesus is the vine and we are the branches. He prunes us that we’ll be more fruitful. Painful pruning, but for growth and flourishing. How is he pruning you? How are you growing?
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Lenten Poems – “The Welcoming Trinity” (34)
Oh how I love these words of Jesus: “I and in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.” What a concept, that the three persons of the Trinity dwell in each other, and we dwell in them, and they in us. Utterly transforming. Mind-boggling. Humbling. Wonderful. On this day when…
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Lenten Poems – “The Father and the Son” (33)
We’ve made it to some of my very favorite parts of Scripture – the Last Discourse as it’s known, when Jesus prepares his friends for his death and resurrection. In these chapters (roughly 14 to 17), he promises the coming Advocate (the Holy Spirit) four times. He won’t be leaving them as orphans, for the…
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Lenten Poems – “The Betrayal” (32)
Not only does Judas betray Jesus, but he knows that Peter will too. How deep Jesus’ love, that he knew what was to come and yet submitted to the abuse and murder, all the while loving and forgiving.
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Lenten Poems – “The Basin and Towel” (31)
Those who lead must serve. The messengers aren’t greater than those who send them. The servants aren’t higher than the master. May we serve and love as we live today.
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Where I am finding myself these days by Amy Young
As you can see in these photos, Amy Young brings rays of sunshine where she goes – I love her smile and joie de vivre. I met her online and count her as a lovely friend who brings encouragement and fun. She and I share a love of NFL football, and she’s the kind of…
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Lenten Poems – “Not to Judge, but Save” (30)
Jesus fulfills the prophecies of Isaiah. He came to bring mercy, not judgment. May we know his mercy this day, that we might receive the eternal life he speaks of.
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Lenten Poems – “Children of Light” (29)
I love this passage, filled with so many thought-provoking words of Jesus. So many songs have been inspired here – “We Want to See Jesus”; “Walk in the Light”; and the one about the kernel of wheat that Russ Taff sings that I can’t place just now! (Help me out if you can!) Thought for…
