Forward Day By Day – October 12, 2018

Friday, October 12, 2018

What kind of terrain is the soil of my heart? I like to believe it is good soil into which the seeds of Jesus’ love fall, germinate, receive ample light and air and nourishment, and produce a hundredfold harvest. But when I am not kidding myself and acknowledge the...

Forward Day By Day – October 11, 2018

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Jesus reassured his disciples and followers that he was not intent on destroying the law or the prophets but rather had come to fulfill them. Now Paul, standing before the Roman governor, must also convince the powers that be that the Way is not a cult and he has not...

Forward Day By Day – October 10, 2018

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

I remember when we used to wait for things—for a handwritten letter, for photos to be developed, for the busy signal on the landline to stop chiming. In this current climate of instant gratification, we can get what we want with startling immediacy. The idea of...

Forward Day By Day – October 9, 2018

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

In this dramatic scene, we are presented with Jesus as zoopoieo, a Greek word meaning “life-maker.” These time-stopping moments in the gospel accounts underscore Jesus’ most compelling attribute: his power to restore life to what is dead.In Jesus’ time, slaves and...

Forward Day By Day – October 8, 2018

Monday, October 8, 2018

I caught one of my students cheating on a test. She had been struggling for a long time, barely passing the class. Driven by desperation, she took a chance and lost. Recalling my own failing math grade in high school, I understood my student’s anguish. Together with...

Forward Day By Day – October 7, 2018

Sunday, October 7, 2018

Every Christmas Eve, my rector would tell the story of Jesus’ nativity as experienced by the animals in the manger. A gaggle of small children, attired in their Christmas finery, sat around the rector, enraptured as they listened to various animal sounds and...

Forward Day By Day – October 6, 2018

Saturday, October 6, 2018

Martin Luther King advised those who wanted to participate in civil rights marches and lunch counter sit-ins: “If you can’t be nonviolent, don’t get in it.” Flesh-shredding water from fire hoses, snarling police dogs, and cigarette burns would test the resolve of...

St. Francis Pet Blessings

Friday, October 5, 2018

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Forward Day By Day – October 5, 2018

Friday, October 5, 2018

“Flattery is all right—so long as you don’t inhale,” said former United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson II. We all like to receive praise—performers, artists, and writers thrive on it; students and employees need—and benefit—from it. We feel dejected when praise is...

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Thursday, October 4, 2018

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