We need one another.  Created to be in relationship with others, we need community.  Community during these days, for many, is difficult.  Loneliness can set in, quite easily, between the walls of a place of residence.

I woke thinking about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.  They were the three friends of Daniel.  They...

Gloves on or gloves off? Yesterday, as I sat in my car disinfecting my hands, following pumping gas, I noticed that another person at a pump had one blue glove on and texted ungloved with the other (hmm…), and another person had clear gloves worn on both hands. It’s amazing how life has made us so much more aware of our hands, what...

Why, Lord? We’re still not getting it – the reason for it all.

Why have You “allowed” this pandemic to happen – something that is causing such despair and anxiety and pain? Why have you allowed so much to be taken from us? We feel stripped bare. Completely vulnerable. Totally lost. Empty. Feelings we have never...

I really don’t understand what’s going on, Lord.

I’m sure You are trying to teach us something through this whole virus experience; trying to encourage us to connect more with others and to think more about what’s really important: health, well-being, family, friends, Creation, life itself.

But to be blatantly honest,...

Easter has come, and gone…

What now, Lord? What have I to anticipate—with all that’s going on around me? The confusion, the heartache, the overwhelming stress of the unknown…trying to cope, but not doing all that well with it …

What about today, and tomorrow? What purpose do I have—when isolated from others...

“ ‘He is risen! He is risen indeed!’ This is what we would all exclaim, in years gone by, as we would meet together on Easter Sunday morning; congregations having gathered together, all around the world. Well, we can still do this—even though isolated from others; to shout out the glorious news in our homes. Can You hear...

“It’s the in-between day, Lord. Yesterday we vicariously felt the horrors of all that happened to You: the scourging, mockery, cruelty beyond belief; the thorns, nails, the excruciating pain You endured as You hung on the Cross. Yet we still call the day ‘Good Friday’ because it all took place for the ultimate good of...

“ ‘O Sacred head now wounded, with grief and pain weighed down… Mine, mine was the transgression, but thine the deadly pain…’

Father, You sent Your only Son into the world to die, for us… so our sins, our transgressions, would be forgiven. Because of this, we can be totally cleansed, washed clean, redeemed.

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“During the Passover meal, the Last Supper, we read that John was ‘reclining’ or ‘leaning into’ Jesus. His head was on Your breast, Lord. Listening to Your heartbeat…

Father, we too want to listen to Your heartbeat. To become aware of what you desire for our lives; what You desire, right now, for the world in...

“Father God, we love You so very much. Help us, especially in these days, to show our love for You by loving others in a way that will leave a lingering, beautiful fragrance.

Thank You for the Cross, Jesus. Dying for us, for the world. And thank You for the anticipation of Easter bringing new life, new hope.

We give ourselves afresh to You...