Spiritual Disciplines
Prayer for the Week
As I’ve shared before, one of the disciplines that I enjoy is the Daily Office. Each week, there is a different “prayer for the week” that you read everyday. I thought I would share this week’s prayer.
Almighty and merciful God, in your goodness keep me, I pray, from all things that may hurt me, that [...]
Feel free to nag in love
Yesterday I wrote about dealing with transition, and in that post, I shared that immediate change in my life is a real energy boosting experience while slow change causes me great anxiety. I can’t really explain why I have such a polarized response to change, but over the past few years, I’ve become aware of [...]
Dealing with transition…
After a great day off yesterday, I’m back to work this morning. I was very much in need of some time away from the office after a difficult weekend. Nothing bad happened. Everything with worship went well, but I didn’t get a lot of sleep Friday night or Saturday night because I couldn’t shut off [...]
Seven Stanzas at Easter
By John Updike
Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.
It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled
eyes of the eleven apostles;
it was as His Flesh: [...]
