Month: March 2017
Jeff Rudy ~ What If I Get Nothing Out of Lent?
March 30, 2017
And so, among other things I’m giving up for Lent, I’m trying to give up the search to find some other hidden meaning. Perhaps I won’t get anything out of it. We don’t enter into the Lenten season practicing disciplines in order to achieve a particular return. It’s not an investment. Fasting and praying are not disciplines that we engage in in order to “cash in” on some prize later.
Carrie Carter ~ Finding Holy in the Everyday
March 29, 2017
It is in this silent space that I re-realize that God is here. His holy in my every day.
Celtic Clues to Feeding Body and Soul
March 27, 2017
The plea and blessing she sought from God wasn’t just hers alone. Guests and visitors who arrived to a home in which the daily chores were being tended greeted their hosts with the Gaelic blessing Bail o Dhia which translates to, ‘God’s blessing on the work!’ The declaration of such a blessing expressed the implicit knowledge that the monotonous backbreaking work was not simply the laborer’s alone but a joint effort blessed by God upon which all of society depended.