I also write in collaboration at Some Comfort and Joy which offers devotional resources based around the liturgical year.
Still Wandering
Perhaps at this mid-point in Lent, you are weary of hearing of deserts and fasting; enough with mortality, death, temptation and testing. Let’s get to the celebration; let’s get to Easter. But we cannot rush through the dry places. We cannot hurry the journey through the wilderness. As we know from our experiences, growth never…
Keep readingInto the Wilderness
Just like your life is organized around different rhythms—the seasons, the rotation of months, the school year—so, too, the life of the church follows a cycle of rituals and celebrations. Following the excesses of Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday comes with its invitation to remember our mortality. While our contemporary culture encourages us to live in…
Keep reading(Changes) Around the Table
Some time ago, I came across this beautiful poem by poet laureate Joy Harjo entitled “Perhaps the World Ends Here” (you can read the full poem here) It begins: The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live. The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the…
Keep readingLenten Retreat
In one week, Christians around the world will receive the imposition of ashes as part of the liturgy and remembrance of Ash Wednesday. This begins the liturgical season of Lent. Lent is a season where we give up something to make more space It is about seeing more clearly. Listening more closely. Seeking after God…
Keep readingOn the Threshold…
The change of seasons, liminal spaces and being on the threshold– all of these transitional moments are opportunities for reflection, reassessment and reconnection. Next week begins the liturgical season of Lent; this is a time in the church year that commemorates Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness and that we use to prepare our hearts…
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