Category: Lent

I’ve tweaked a piece I wrote during the Lenten season two years ago. I hope it will be an encouragement for you to tell your story in light of God’s companionship and compassion for where you find yourself. For some, that may be a time of waiting for upcoming medical appointments, hope for reconciliation in…

(Reflections from Genesis 1-2, Job 41, Psalm 8 and 22, and John 8) “The season of Lent, during which winter and spring struggle with each other for dominance, helps us in a special way to cry out for God’s mercy.”   -Henri Nouwen, Show Me the Way He bent low, picked up a handful of dust…

Today we are confronted with the deep, wrestling prayer of Jesus in the garden. The battle plays out in Luke 22:42: “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” Verse 44 describes the moment as palpable grief: “Being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and…

“Just before the Passover festival, Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” John 13:1 Today is Maundy Thursday, which, according to John 13:1, symbolized “the full extent” of Jesus’…