When my daughter was in college, she spent a January semester in Ghana. I don’t remember all the stories she shared but I do remember her saying “Mom, if your feet are clean your whole body feels clean.” Today is Maundy Thursday the day when we remember and reflect upon…
Read moreWhile I was visiting family in Florida a couple of weeks ago we attended worship at their “winter” church. They are snow birds. I was blessed to enjoy their hospitality and the warmth of the sun for a week. The service that particular Sunday was an explanation of the Passover…
Read moreThe Lenten devotional email included the words of Ecclesiastes 3 and those words couldn’t have been more on target. It was a day when my daughter was attending the funeral for the mother of one of her closest friends as I was attending a wedding – a time to mourn…
Read moreI never realized until a few years ago that there aren’t actually forty days between Ash Wednesday and Easter. I never counted them. I had learned as a child that Ash Wednesday started the season of Lent, that you gave up something, that Lent is about Jesus’ time in wilderness…
Read moreThe youngest of my students used to pick fruit to make fruit salad as part of their warm up exercises. We stood in a circle and imagined a large tree in the center from which we stretched our arms high to reach whatever fruit they named. Apples, pears, bananas, oranges…
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