The “one thing” each of us finds hardest to give up may be the single most significant sign to lead us to an entry door to our communion with God, if we could only recognize the importance of that choice. ~ Luci Shaw in Water my Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life Word Count: 40 Today’s […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 34
Lent is a 40-day journey, I’m told. But there are actually 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter morning. The Sundays are feast days, not fast days. Who knew? I need to plan a new plan. A diminishing diet. A shrinking of words? Word Count: 40 Today’s Reading: Ephesians 1 – 6 “The good […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 33 (Scripture Sunday)
We’ve chosen Spirit life. “That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.” Word Count: 40 ~ From Galatians 5:25-26 (MSG) Today’s Reading: Celebrating the wonder of […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 32 (still saturday)
Morning Prayer This is the day, let it be the day of the poem today, today, today for my loves who I care for and who You care for more than I ever could because, of course, You are God. ~L.L. Barkat in Love, Etc.: Poems of Love, Laughter, Longing & Loss […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 31 (Five Minute Friday – Writer)
She threw the rock in a meltdown moment. The lantern exploded into a bazillion grains of shimmered sand. He makes all things beautiful. I brushed the shards into my palm, squeezed until I bled. Then I sat down to write. Word Count: 40 Today’s Reading: 2 Corinthians 1 – 13 NOTE: “We need […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 30 (Plus An Invitation and a Giveaway!)
“We need solitude in a world that wants to visit, quiet from a world that wants idle chit-chat, and steadfastness in a world where everything’s changing and transient. We need time to gather the little pieces of ourselves that scatter.” Word Count: 40 ~Dave Harrity in Making Manifest: On Faith, Creativity, and the Kingdom at […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 29
Please, God, let my parents come and beat her up. We’d had a sword fight with pencils, she and I. And Mrs. Smith rapped my 8-year-old knuckles. But not hers. So I turned around and scribbled on her picture. And . . . continued over at Laura Rath’s in my post titled “On the […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 28
My son helps educate children. He helps heal the sick. He helps run major companies. He helps ease transitions and changes. Yet he’s not a teacher, a doctor, a CEO, or a counselor. He’s an operations manager for a local . . . Continued over at The High Calling where they’re featuring this post as […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 27 (And #LoveIdol winner)
All Lined Up They’re all lined up and dressed to the T’s. Shoulder to shoulder and hip to hip they hang on vinyl pews silent and still until one billowed breath sends them swaying in the spirit and waving praises in hallelujah colors. Word Count: 40 (minus the title) (Pulled from the archives and […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 26 (Scripture Sunday)
When all the people saw him walking and praising God, they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened . . . ~Acts 3:9-10 (NIV) Word Count: 40 Christopher Williams at Laity Lodge, The […]
