Lenten Listening
Lent begins today. It came upon me, almost unexpected. Snow is blowing outside, and inside we’ve been hit with one of many winter viruses. The house is sh...
Category: Lent
It’s Friday. Period.
This is for the people who need to embrace the tears of Good Friday. “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s coming,” they say. And I can understand the sentiment. It’s hard...
Lent and the Virtue of Silence
I hadn’t intended to keep silence on the blog since my last post about having a “Gentle Lent.” But perhaps the absence of words is fitting, in...
Praying the Psalms: Gentle Lent
Some of the psalms are so rich I spend days mining their treasures. There are many mornings I simply stay and pray with the psalm of the previous day, because I...