Screwtape and Easter
From The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis: My Dear Wormwood, Now I am obliged to write to you about the most uncomfortable subject. At all costs I would wish to avoid even the mention of this matter but it must be broached. I am referring to the Christian holiday known as Easter. As you know [...]
Great Expectation
So Passover week didn’t quite go the way the disciples had planned. It was, after all, supposed to be a coronation of a King. The beginning of the week saw palm branches, a donkey’s colt the whole nine yards. the ushering in of what was to be a new kingdom. Israel would be restored. By [...]
First Light
Another repost, circa 2006. Friday, the Friday we call Good; Good Friday. Now, the term “Good Friday” and its origin are unclear but there have been other terms for it such as “God’s Friday” and is still known as “Long Friday” to the Dutch. It’s the Friday unlike any other on our calendar. Well, the [...]
Wednesdays Are Bad Days, Especially for Special Days and Holidays.
So, i dug up some posts from my old blogspot and will be posting them periodically. I found some Easter related posts that i’ll be posting over the next few days, but first, an old post about Ash Wednesday circa 2005. Another Repost: ———————————————————————————————————————- Well, at the very least, Calvin would be proud; Not Comic [...]
Christer Revisted
So, i was reading through my old posts, particularly those that have to do with the Easter Season, looking for a little inspiration for and i found this post from a couple years ago. Still applies…i guess this would be my first repost.
Reign Over Me
Recently, i went on a weekend retreat with my church. I had been struggling as the weekend approached and had been working on a blog to help me sort though my thoughts. Anyway, the first night of the retreat we had a worship session that was probably the most fruitful worship i’ve had in a [...]
Fish Eyes
You know, sometimes, i sit down to write something because i feel like i have something to say, but, most of the time, i don’t really know what it is i want to say. At the moment, I have three thoughts that seem unrelated, but they are three thoughts nonetheless; First, that i am prone [...]
A Wish Your Heart Makes
I have dreams and, in a word, they’re horrible. They aren’t nightmares, they are, in fact, horrible dreams. They all begin the same way: i’m in the middle of something when i find myself in conversation with someone. I find myself living out the reality i want, with the people i want, in a heart-felt [...]
When Worlds Collide
Many people I know are grieving today. Some grieve the death of a loved one, the impending death of a loved one and still others of us grieve, not the dead, but the living. Grief is a strange thing; burdensome and painful, yet necessary. It seems to be and makes us feel…backwards…it makes us feel [...]
Too Deep For Tears
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; [...]