Eucharistic Living
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moreOf Poets & Saints & All Waking to Glory
On Wednesday, April 09 th, 2008“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every moment?” It’s a haunting, probing question, one asked in Thornton Wilder’s play, “Our Town.” And so comes the incisive answer offered by one of the characters, “No…. the saints and poets, maybe. They do, some.” No, no one ever realizes life while they live it. Except, maybe, the poets...
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moreThe Psalm in the Pocket of my Heart
On Wednesday, April 09 th, 2008The Psalm I’ve tucked in the pocket of my heart today… O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon an...
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moreSlowing to Make Seeing Spaces
On Thursday, April 03 rd, 2008Two tired boys with mononucleosis and a sniffling mama… I am slowing down. And seeing. A memory I’m revisiting as the snow melts and spring pushes through: I close the mailbox with a snap and head into the house with a stack of junk mail and bills, rifling through them as I walk…chicken breasts on sale for $1.97 lb…telephone bill due ...
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moreVisual Homemaking Journal
On Sunday, March 30 th, 2008A place to scratch it all down… menus, tasks, funny children remarks, things to remember… and the place where I keep a running list of daily gifts from His hand, that for which to notice and give thanks… “Nothing has really happened unless its been described [in words]. Keep a diary. Don’t let a d...
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moreSupply
On Tuesday, March 25 th, 2008I know not what occupied me those long hours of the nailing; I only know that I was oblivious to the woods ringing with the pounding of the hammer across the hills last week. Spigots, they were, driven into the hearts of naked wood lined with the age of summers known, winters lived, exposed now in the chill of mid-March sun. Without a sound, the woods wept, n...
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moreA Prayer for the Monday after Easter
On Monday, March 24 th, 2008The windmill in the picket fenced garden beside the house is motionless this morning. I stand at the corner kitchen window eating a warmed Empty Tomb bun, gazing out on a stilled world, a sole sparrow chirping in the maple, a lost flake of lace drifting down. It is the Monday after Resurrection Sunday: today is the beginning of living Easter. Today crucify m...
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moreEaster Devotional: Crucified with Christ {Day 15}
On Friday, March 21 st, 2008A series preparing hearts for Easter… (Day 15) We pause to listen to His Word, linger, lift up voice in prayer… then go live the Word. Listen to His Word (read): Matthew 27:32-54 in ESV As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. They came to a place called Golgotha (which me...
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moreEssence of Faith
On Thursday, March 20 th, 2008I half, fold, crease the winter stitches pressing patches down into blanket box darkness, then shake out Easter quilts bright as wind shakes panes and ruffles the feathers of a huddle of sparrows skittering atop ice crusted knoll heralding, with calendar page, the first day of Spring, the day for the changing of the quilts, the hanging of resurrection hope wh...
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moreThe Story with Answers
On Wednesday, March 19 th, 2008While Passover 2008 isn’t until April 20, we think on these things as we prepare for Easter… I shouldn’t have been surprised when the questions came, probing, searching like a river rushing on. God knew they would. Did He not prophesy it millennia ago? “When your children ask their fathers in the time to come, saying, ‘What…?’” (Joshua ...
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moreEaster Devotional: Live the Last Supper {Day 13}
On Wednesday, March 19 th, 2008A series preparing hearts for Easter… (Day 13) We pause to listen to His Word, linger, lift up voice in prayer… then go live the Word. Listen to His Word (read): Matthew 26:17-30 ESV Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He s...
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moreWhy not Always Joy?
On Tuesday, March 18 th, 2008What compels us to snuff out our own joy? True, it seems I am merely escaping an argument over whose pencil was actually under the table, a game of hide and seek gone horribly wrong, a stack of lunch dishes, laundry and mail, to fall into bed and pillows and quiet. But it is the answer to that question that I pursue behind this closed door. I need to know. I ac...
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moreEaster Devotional: Broken and Multiplied {Day 10}
On Friday, March 14 th, 2008A series preparing hearts for Easter… (Day10) We pause to listen to His Word, linger, lift up voice in prayer… then go live the Word. Listen to His Word (read): Matt. 14:13-22 in NLT As soon as Jesus heard the news, he left in a boat to a remote area to be alone. But the crowds heard where he was headed and followed on foot from many to...
