This is the great feast of incarnation. This is God coming into our humanity, God divinizing our humanity.
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In proclaiming God’s kingdom, his love gushes from him to us
And also to us? Me thinks that is so!
Continue readingGod our rock outlasts, withstands the buffeting winds, storms of life
Both Isaiah and Jesus are pointing us towards a most important focus, igniting within us a confidence in our God, and a belief that will be imprinted in and on our hearts, “In God we trust.”
Continue readingEmbrace the message of peace from the prince of peace
To truly make peace a lived reality, today.
Continue readingAre we willing to produce good fruit for the ‘long haul’?
If indeed humans have existed on this planet for 160,000 years, God definitely has “hung around” around with us, put up with a lot, loved us in spite of ourselves, and continues to grace and gift us without conditions and without limits.
Continue readingThis day, we enter fully into such woe
A reflection on the daily readings, for Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion, by Father Perry. By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor + “O, woe is me …” This famous saying is thought, by many, to have originated in Shakespeare. […]
Continue readingYou must wash the feet of everyone
Jesus predicts, in a very indirect way, his coming death and shows this act of love as awareness and appreciation of his love and presence experienced in the now and predicted as a love and presence that would be eternally given.
Continue readingLetting the good bless us
Don’t perform in order to be praised and noticed. Do the good; serve others.
Continue readingGod gives good advice, but do we take it?
Since everyone at some time or another needs healing, presumably we are very lucky and no doubt very comforted with Jesus’ words.
Continue readingFasting much go much farther than just ‘giving up something’ for Lent
And fasting, the kind the Lord wants, repairs the heart and opens the heart to see with love, to be truly human and even divine.
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