Easter Blessing One of my friends Lakeisha W. reflected in a Facebook post this morning: Easter is more about life than death […] Easter is a time to reset spiritually. That reminded me of David Whyte’s poem, THE BLESSING OF THE MORNING LIGHT (Or, “Easter Blessing”). I shared it...
It’s not the money; it’s the ‘LUCK’ of the Silver Dollar you give up. You give up your luck or Blessing or Gift. That was in the Divine Stigmata –you gave up your pleasure, bliss or peace with God & endured the shallows & wastes of human sense for eighteen years. Was this ...
Today we think about how we can be the hands and feet of Jesus to suffering children. This prayer, from the Catholic Household Blessing and Prayers, is a good one to contemplate: Heavenly Father, your holiness revealed in Jesus challenges us to renounce violence, to forsake revenge, and ...
Awareness is a blessing when we are able to see and confess that we live in a fallen world. John said in John 5:19 “the world lies in the power of the evil one.” We were born into it, with a death certificate in our hands. We grow up in it. We are an integral part of it...
5.God’s grace-like-rain showers us with blessing (Isaiah 41:17-18). Flowers of joy, peace, hope, and morecanflourish in the most desolate of places, when we allow God to infuse us with his all-sufficient presence. 6.God’s grace gives us refreshment and pleasure (Jeremiah 31:25; ...
I have the blessing of my family and the love we share, a good counselor, supportive friends, and a good church. In addition, there are three things that helped me recover that I want to share. 1) I’m not broken beyond repair. I am wounded and grieving. I have good reason to be...
Today we think about how we can be the hands and feet of Jesus to suffering children. This prayer, from the Catholic Household Blessing and Prayers, is a good one to contemplate: Heavenly Father, your holiness revealed in Jesus challenges us to renounce violence, to forsake revenge, and ...
but he truly had his wits about him. Tis sad that we cannot be together with him ever again, but as is with death. He lived an honorable life but died at the hands of dishonor. If not for his sacrifice to us all, we may not be here today. Thank you for everything Brok. You'...
In John 6:41-51, the people who had just had the blessing of being part of the Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000 (men, plus women and children) with fish and bread. You’d think they’d be grateful, but no, they were not. And then Jesus counsels them to not settle for bread that...
St. Simeon the Stylite shows the creative foreshortening of his column and renders it as a tower with stairs and a door with a balustrade at the top for him to rest upon. He gives the blessing with his right hand and holds a scroll in the left- again, iconographic language that commun...