Forward Day By Day – April 16, 2020

Thursday, April 16, 2020

From the Archives: November 4, 1941When our Lord came bringing redemption, he did not stop to count the cost. When this woman wanted to show her gratitude, nothing but the best would do. Onlookers called it extravagance, complained at the waste. Jesus said she was...

Forward Day By Day – April 15, 2020

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

We are sitting on the sofa, speaking about Jesus, when suddenly our souls seem to be splashing with unaccountable joy. We can see no reason for this preposterous happiness, but you turn to me and say, “I feel a gentle wind touching me, playing a song of happiness.”...

Forward Day By Day – April 14, 2020

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Mary told us she’d seen the flowers of Golgotha. I desperately want to believe her. I miss my friend, my teacher. But unless I smell those flowers, until I see their colors with my own eyes and touch the blooms and petals with my own hands, how can I believe her?...

Forward Day By Day – April 13, 2020

Monday, April 13, 2020

With God, we are like butterflies out of the cocoon, former caterpillars now spreading stained-glass wings, the pattern of God’s fingerprints dusted all over them. Our fragility becomes our strength because God restores our broken places. The Lord transforms our scars...

Forward Day By Day – April 12, 2020

Sunday, April 12, 2020

I came here for the wilted husk of just one precious flower, but your voice miraculously bloomed by this tomb, calling me Mary, and you gave me the whole garden, instead. Every blossom and petal. The meaning of this moment stretches for all eternity. The...

Forward Day By Day – April 11, 2020

Saturday, April 11, 2020

If I had been Judas, my soul would have spiraled in vertigo as I felt the coins in my hands. Wasn’t Jesus’ love enough to save the world? Didn’t the plowshare life promise greater triumph than all the weapons of war? Not zealous enough, Judas might ha….(View...

Forward Day By Day – April 10, 2020

Friday, April 10, 2020

The sky around the stars is the color of burnt tea. Darkness slithers past, spreading like damson toward the crusty edge of the Skull Place. The Milky Way vanishes like the light from another room when the door is slammed. Clouds explode and swallow the moon....

Forward Day By Day – April 9, 2020

Thursday, April 9, 2020

From the Archives: March 21, 1939Jesus left behind many precious legacies. One of the most precious is Holy Communion. He told his apostles in the upper room that he was about to be taken, but he assured them he would always be with them. He….(View this reading...

Forward Day By Day – April 8, 2020

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

On the knife-edge of my life, I was desperate for deliverance. A disciple of Jesus, I seek him—his comfort, his forgiveness—as I walk to the Sea of Galilee in the dead of night. The boats float motionlessly on the still water. The air seems unable to breathe, and the...