Easter
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moreWhat an Easter Monday Faith Looks Like
On Monday, April 01 st, 2013‘Do not abandon yourselves to despair – We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song!’ ~ John Paul II ...
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moreWhen You’re Tired of Being Torn: Why He Came {A Good Friday Reflection: The One-Piece Life}
On Friday, March 29 th, 2013Our Pastor calls to ask if I’d do one of a few dramatic monologues for Good Friday service— a moment through the eyes of the mother of Jesus? So I write down words… and imagine the mother of our Lord… fingering the bloody tunic of her Son. Son…. Son of God… Son of mine… God. Why? From the beginning I have watched and I have listened and...
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moreWhen You’re Struggling through Holy Week (Thursday)
On Thursday, March 28 th, 2013There’s snow in the middle of Holy Week. A dusting, a sugar snow, an Easter snow. As if the whole smashed world is intent on freezing. Doing whatever it takes, over and over again, to stay numbed to the burn of the pain. Because somebody’s beloved kid had a womb scraped out to get rid ...
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moreWhy You need an Island of Quiet right now
On Wednesday, March 27 th, 2013Sunday, there’d been the crowning, the waving of the palms. Monday, then the cleansing, the cursing of the fig. Tuesday, the conflict, the plotting of the Pharisee. Then come Thursday — there would be the communion, the breaking of the bread. And Friday, the crucifixion, the hanging of the impossible dead. And at no point could anyone have imag...
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moreForget Perfect: When All You Need for Easter is the Lamb {Free Easter Printable}
On Tuesday, March 26 th, 2013So on a week when you feel messy and behind and burdened...
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moreWhen You’re Feeling Dry for Holy Week . . . . {Christian Easter Activity}
On Tuesday, March 26 th, 2013{Two posts today… second one will be up around 3:00 pm EST} Dad always did that after the meat and potatoes, after the plates were cleared and stacked. He’d ask for a toothpick. Him in his plaid flannel shirt and Levi’s, looking for a bit of a tree to right everything again. That’s what he’d do before he left the table: He’d snap the wood bet...
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moreHow To Get Through Cancer, Dark Times, & Suffering {…and an interview @Desiring God}
On Monday, March 25 th, 2013So this Palm Sunday weekend found me gathering with the women from Perimeter Church. Where songwriter Laura Story, and her soul beautiful friend,Tiffany both attend…. and I pray their God stories in the midst of suffering forever change me: {Consider muting Mr. Nevue’s music ...
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moreCome to the Easter Garden {A Christian Easter Family Activity}
On Thursday, March 14 th, 2013So the thing is, back there in the beginning, we all had this shattering fall in a garden. And we mark it on the calendar, Christ, falling in the garden of Gethsemane. Christ, righting our messy fall. So the kids and I, we put our hands into dirt, and we remember our garden fall and His garden grace, and we make a Grace Garden for Easter. ...
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moreThe 1 Command that Could Resurrect the Church, Our Hurting Places & the Sisterhood of Women
On Wednesday, March 13 th, 2013There’s a reason He called us His Body and not His Estate.” That’s what Tib Pearson told me. Tib with his Red Wing workboots and worn John Deere hat and hands weathered and etched like a greying cedar rail. “A Body is connected with sinew and vein — and an estate is divided with fences and line.” He said it with his hands, the way a man of the land...
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moreWhen Lent & Valentines Collide: 40 Days of ThanksLoving
On Wednesday, February 13 th, 2013It wasn’t 2 weeks before those 40 days of Lent that he’d turned 40. I’d kissed the old man in the kitchen and his 4 days growth had rubbed me like a matted burr and he’d laughed like a free man and said he’d never expected 40 to feel so young. I had thought we’d celebrate and loose the farm for the first real time. ...
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moreWhy Doing Lent This Year Is What You Really Need . . . . . (and a Free Family Lent & Easter Devotional)
On Tuesday, February 12 th, 2013I can’t seem to follow through in giving up for Lent. Which makes me want to just give up Lent. Which makes me question Who I am following. Which may precisely be the point of Lent. Last week, I’m standing on a table, snapping the shutter on a bouquet of roses, when by brother calls. Levi picks it u...
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morefor when your life seems turned upside down … {the practice of living Easter}
On Wednesday, April 11 th, 2012Turns out that all it takes to snap your back at the base is just a turning and a bending over to pick up a book. Turns out ‘safe’ isn’t a place you live at — but a Person you live in. Pleated there at the window, trying to straighten the back out again, trying to unfold upright again, I could see it — Snow falling, falling down in the orchard, fal...
