Acts 2:42-47
1 Pt 1:3-9
Jn 20:19-31
Inner Room
I love the readings from the Sunday of March 30th. It touches on values that I hold most dear and in the gospel it states that Christ can penetrate any fear with love.
Growing up in a family of seven children we shared everything from the television to arguing about whose [...]

Acts 10:34a, 37-43
Col 3:1-4 or I Cor 5:6b-8
Jn 20:1-9
Who was that Man?
The day before Easter a friend and I were taking our dogs to be groomed. In many ways it had been a wonderfully normal Saturday. The dogs had been taken to the dog park where they ran and let go of some of their [...]

Is 50:4-7
Phil 2:6-11
Mt 26:14-27:66 or 27:11-54.
Which Crowd?
There it was the Palm Sunday celebration. My friend Alice and I head off to Sunday’s celebration. I got let off at the place where the procession was going to begin outside, and Alice parks her car. I kept looking at the back of the crowd gathered for my [...]

Ez 37:12-14
Rom 8:8-11
Jn 11:1-45 or 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45
Let Your Ears be Attentive
In church a few weeks ago the priest presider was sending the younger children off for their scripture study. He began his prayer saying, “Let your ears help you see God’s presence among you…” Realizing that he said ears and not eyes he [...]

1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a
Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38
Life Turned Upside Down
Again after another bout of being sick in bed I re-enter my world of work and being upright for the day, rather than only a few hours. Although this is not at all like being blind, it did offer me [...]