Mar 30, 2018 | Blog, Devotions, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
Visiting the Blog Archives today. We are not built for everyone’s bad news, or are we? Day after day, bad news streams into our lives. Just this week: A 22,000 lb. bomb, known as “The Mother of all Bombs (MOAB),” was dropped in the Achin district of...
Mar 29, 2018 | Blog, Bible Study, Devotions, Faith, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
James Tissot, A Holy Woman Wipes Jesus’s Face Fact or fable? Does it matter to me today? I confess not. Tissot reminds me this Holy Maundy Thursday to help others in their time of desperate need. We belong to one another. One grand universal family who one day...
Mar 28, 2018 | Blog, Faith, Motherhood, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
While the Bible does not tell us who the wife of Pilate the governor was, the Apocryphal book, The Gospel of Nicodemus, identifies her as Claudia Procula, and a granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus. The book also says that she was a proselyte to Judaism, being among...
Mar 27, 2018 | Blog, Community, Conversation, Faith
-Taken from the Archives, Lenten Thoughts from 2012. My Lenten Haiku: Lent strips the self bare A slow steady pace forward Fresh starts and clean slates I woke up yesterday morning before dawn. Primarily because my husband had to be at work very early. Usually, his...
Mar 26, 2018 | Prayer, Blog, Spiritual Formation, Strength for Hard Times
Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a sudden good break can turn life around.” -Proverbs 13:12 (MSG) Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” -Proverbs 13:12 (NIV) The Pain of Unanswered...
