It seems that Love has something to say on this day.
“…when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a remembered love… a living force that sustains us in the present.” —Henri Nouwen
“Welcome to the descent. As we slip down deeper and deeper, I invite you to remember… that it is not in perfection that we reach the divine, but through the gateway of our mistakes and our suffering…” —Mirabai Starr
Disentangle me
Create in me a new heart
Surrendered to Love
2019
Love spills, softens, permeates our being, and we open to one another.
“Life is embodied network.” —David George Haskell
2018
In today’s Keep Watch with Me Lenten Reader, Community organizer Justin Jones tells a story of a Holy Week protest and the movement of the Spirit, “Before we engaged in our sit-in, many of us were strangers; now, a trust and openness to something that transcended our own beings bonded us.”
2017
“I would say there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else… The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family…” ~Mary Oliver, Upstream
2016
It fills my heart with so much joy seeing the creative work inspired by this Lenten design. I’m not kidding… it’s pretty much bursting right now. So, while my heart is bursting, I might as well let this secret out, too. There’s a word worked into this design… perhaps, more than anything, it’s what the world needs now.
2016
In today’s ’40 Days of Giving’ devotion, Pastor Malpica shares the story of a mother’s unending love for her daughter and the accompaniment of ELCA World Hunger, which “loved them to the end.” ~The Rev. Rafael Malpica Padilla, executive director for ELCA Global Mission
“Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” ~John 13:1b
2015
neighbors
2014
Notes from worship today at Living Word Lutheran Church
2014
Notes from Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber’s talks at the LEAD event on March 22, 2014. Please forgive me for any paraphrasing that doesn’t quite hit the mark, and realize there’s some of my own stuff in here, too… questions, things I pondered while processing the notes, prayers, etc.
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