Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. — Spanish proverb Listening to or spreading gossip is a good thing to give up for Lent and for all time for that matter. I know our trust is well placed when we trust in God, but we also need friends who we can trust to keep our…
Month: February 2016
Thursday In the First Week of Lent
I think all of us who are on a spiritual journey envy those who have a major, even sensational, spiritual experience. Moses had the burning bush, Mary a visit from Gabriel, and Saul/Paul had a revelation in the desert. Lent usually doesn’t qualify as a sudden sensational spiritual experience but can be just as meaningful,…
Wednesday in the First Week of Lent
. . . no one who learns to know himself remains just what he was before. — Thomas Mann Through prayer, meditation, fasting, and service we change, bit by bit, day by day. Lent is all about learning about ourselves and change. A week ago on Ash Wednesday as you began your Lenten discipline, you…
Tuesday in the First Week of Lent
My father was a big proponent of “walking in another man’s shoes” before we passed judgment. As a young boy I said a lot of stupid things and my father would remind me to look at things from a different perspective. Time and wisdom have taught me that the simple phrase “walk in someone else’s…
Monday In The First Week of Lent
People ask, “do you read other meditations?” The answer is of course I do. The best being not necessarily the truest or the most eloquent, but those that give me pause to think and create in me a desire to read the words again, and meditate and pray over their meaning and what the words…