Monthly Archives: February 2016

“O God, I seek you.  My soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.”  Is your soul thirsty today?  Does it feel like you’re wandering around an … Continue reading →

A few chapters before today’s Gospel lesson, Luke tells us that Jesus “set his face to go to Jerusalem.”  It’s a literary device that sets the context for how to read everything that happens between that statement and what happens … Continue reading →

Lent is here.  Already.  The look on Fran Howard’s face last week when I announced the Ash Wednesday service said it all.  (Make face.)   Those who were able to attend the Ash Wednesday service got a good start on … Continue reading →

For what does your spirit long tonight?  What inside you feels incomplete, fragile, unworthy, lonely?  Do you ever try to satisfy that longing?  Chances are, you do try to fill it.  Because the ache of the emptiness, our wholeness is … Continue reading →

Prayer for Our Muslim Friends    President Obama made an historic visit to a mosque in Baltimore this week.  In the face of so much anti-Muslim rhetoric these days—especially among presidential candidates—he reminded all of us that ours is a … Continue reading →

Jesus and his disciples have been traveling throughout Galilee.  After a hectic schedule of teaching and healing and hosting 5,000 people for dinner on the ground, Jesus takes Peter, James, and John with him up a mountain to pray. As … Continue reading →