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Holy Saturday: The Garden in Waiting
Reflection Point:
âLook well to the growing edge! All around us worlds are dying and new worlds are being born; all around us life is dying and life is being born. The fruit ripens on the tree, the roots are silently at work in the darkness of the earth against a...
Good Friday: The Grove of Grief
Reflection Point:
âGrief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that every loss echoes the depths of our capacity to care.â
âFrancis Weller
Scripture:
âHe was despised and rejected by others,
a man of suffering and acquainted...
We are in the midst of Holy Week. Itâs a week that occasionally gets rushed as we are so focused on the exciting experience of Easter.
Yet, this week holds a divine mystery. It reminds us of the art of Holy Waiting. This means we allow ourselves to wait on the slow work of God and not demand certai...
Palm Sunday: The Forest Path
Reflection Point:
âAll that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.â
âJ.R.R. Tolkien
Scripture:
âThey took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, âHosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!ââ (John 12:13)...
As Jesusâ enemies circled, and the end of everything approached, the disciples hoped Jesus would do something. Itâs our first impulse: âwhat can we do?â What Jesus did was go off alone to âwatch and prayâ. And he told his disciples to do the same. This sounded to them like âdonât do anything,â so th...
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âWhy, yesâŚyes you can. And with great compassion and integrity!â
Emily Askew, PhD.
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This is the answer I have given hundreds of times to people who do not believe that
online learning can be as good as face-to-face (F2F) learning in creating community,
offering a rigorous curriculum, and at...
Reflection Point: âA tiny sapling can feed the world and a small hope can lead the lives.â âRuthwik Reddy Sunketa
Scripture: âJesus said: What is God's kingdom like? What story can I use to explain it? It is like what happens when a mustard seed is planted in the ground. It is the smallest seed in ...
Reflection Point:Â âThe oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.â âJames Allen
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Scripture:Â Then Jesus said, âThis is what Godâs kingdom is like. Itâs as though someone scatters seed on the...
âFiction is crisis.â I was reminded of this Jonathan Mayberry quote in a recent article in
Writerâs Digest. Ryan Given Cleave wrote how fiction is all about the characterâs messy
life. You donât write about a bunch of happy people having a lovely day. âInstead, itâs
about embracing tension, chall...
Reflection Point: âLife does not accommodate you, it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.â âFlorida Scott-Maxwell
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Scripture: "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair." (2 Corinthians 4:8)
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Wisdom from a ...
I was in my 20âs when I went through my dark night of the soul. The once strong, tightly wound pieces of my belief system slowly started to unravel. At the time I was also burned out and exhausted. And the one part of my life that was always my constant, my faith, didnât make sense anymore. I had ne...
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Reflection Point: "The tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach the light." -Sandra Kring
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Scripture: Jesus said, "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it b...
