Mary, William Law, & Us

Monday, April 9, 2018

Today is the transferred date of the Feast of the Annunciation.  The past four months have been a whirlwind of waiting through Advent, the struggle between the material and holy Christmastide, the long, hard Lent, the joy of the Resurrection, and within days here we...

Community

Saturday, April 7, 2018

It seems that our language changes rather rapidly and frequently. There are words we use commonly today that in my childhood 50-60 years ago were never really heard. I’m talking about words like ecology, internet, media, and community. Today, the word community...

In Waiting

Friday, April 6, 2018

Gospel of Luke 24:1-12   I have settled in ‘for the duration’ with my Mom and Dad at their home on the Oregon Coast. I am helping my Dad care for my Mom as she is in the final stages of her illness.* In our church year, we are in the time of the...

Go and make disciples

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Matthew 28:16-20 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go...

Reawakening

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Four days before he was murdered, the Revd Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, preached the Fifth Sunday of Lent at Washington National Cathedral. Today, thousands will gather to recommit to the work of dismantling racism in this country, rallying in Washington on the fiftieth...

Can you hear the hope?

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Alleluia! Alleluia! Christ is Risen!   Can you hear it? Can you feel the joy? Can you see the hope? Can you imagine the world changed?   Easter is here.   We waited. We watched. We prayed. Easter is here.   In the brilliance of Easter’s glory, the...

Jesus the Gardener

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Both the lectionary readings and the Daily Office readings for Holy Week tell again and again how Christ Jesus was seen after the Crucifixion. The women at the empty tomb. The skeptical eleven. The disciples fleeing to Emmaus. But the one that touches me the most is...

Noli Me Tangere

Sunday, April 1, 2018

by Linda McMillan John 20:1-18 When someone precious is no longer there — through death or distance — look for the love. It may be hard to recognize, but it’ll be there. Somewhere.   Jesus was betrayed, he has died, he has been laid in a tomb,...

Eyewitness

Saturday, March 31, 2018

My name is Miriam. It’s a common name in my world, and there were at least three of us who stood at the bottom of the cross yesterday as our leader and Rabbi hung there, a victim of Jewish jealousy and Roman fear of insurrection.   While no women had ever...

Running on Empty

Friday, March 30, 2018

Daily Office Readings for Good Friday, 2018: AM Psalm 95 [for the Invitatory], 22; PM Psalm 40:1-14 (15-19), 54 Lam. 3:1-9, 19-33; 1 Pet. 1:10-20; John 13:36-38 [AM]; John 19:38-42 [PM]   Psalm 22 is the “classic” Good Friday psalm, and it’s one of those where...

The Container We Were Given

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Mark 14:12-25 This morning I poured water into an ordinary glass, and I was suddenly struck by what an astounding container it is.  This tumbler is not very special.  We bought a set of them years ago in some store like Target.  But it is a miracle of design...

The Meaning of Judas

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Among my vivid early memories is a betrayal. I was in seventh grade, at a middle-school Halloween dance, dressed in the football uniform I’d borrowed from the boy I liked. The year prior, my best friend—the most cherished friend of my youth—moved away. But that...

A Prayer for Holy Week

Monday, March 26, 2018

The days say to us: Enter. Come experience. Come live. Come savor.   These days are ours to know. Ours to enter. Ours to walk. Ours to pray. Ours to love.   This Holy Week calls each of us.   For 40 days we’ve waited and watched. We’ve turned to the...

Holy Week Feet

Sunday, March 25, 2018

We are in it now, the last race, the last heartbreaking mile. Yesterday we walked with our Lord as he entered Jerusalem’s Eastern Gate astride a colt, like a king, the ground strewn with cloaks and branches. He rides a donkey, not a warhorse. A sign of peace? Of...

It Is Finished

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Mark 11:1-11 Jesus come to re-create the world, not to be the boss of it. Jesus shows his political genius in this morning’s gospel reading. As Pilate enters Jerusalem from the west, resplendent in his full regalia, Jesus will enter from the east, on a donkey:...