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2023 Lent Devotional-Week 7
The woman of Samaria witnesses to us that we belong precisely because we are wonderfully different and that God in Christ, our Wonderfully Different invites us to become agents of change for the wholeness of our cosmos.
2023 Lent Devotional- Week 6
Take heart, family. Take courage. Prepare for joy. Because God is doing great things in us, through us, and even when we are lost in the wilderness.
2023 Week Devotional-Week 5
Humbleness is a characteristic that has supported the existence of Indigenous communities for thousands of years. In all simplicity, all because it limits the violence of hubris and exploitation.
2023 Lent Devotional- Week 4
Jesus acknowledged and affirmed them as his most faithful followers during his journey to the crucifixion.
2023 Lent Devotional- Week 3
What if we enter our season with a desire to build a beloved community where our actions are leading to tear down walls that are keeping us divided?
2023 Lenten Devotional -Week 2
I pray that this season of disease and dis-ease will bring us, people of faith and those on the faith journey, to new places of purpose, understanding, and allowances. That we be stretched to work for your Kin-dom like never before and may we find space at the table for all of your beloved.
2023 Lenten Devotional-Ash Wednesday
As I come out of winter into Lent, I look forward to spring and the Resurrection - of being edged out of the cold doldrums of stillness into the vibrant, moving warmth of life’s new expressions and colors.
2022 Lenten Devotional- Week 7
Can we preach resurrection when we haven’t figured out how resurrection looks like in our lives? I bring back the question hooks asks: “Do we believe that God can restore all of that which is broken within us?”
2022 Lent Devotional- Week 6
I’m here to tell you God will. And when God provides that strength, in whatever mysterious ways or messages, don’t ignore them. Don’t be afraid to make waves with your compassion. Because doing so will change your life. But more importantly, it will change the lives of others.
2022 Lenten Devotional- Week 5
Rather than try to find a box that can encompass my identity, I have found that I need to get rid of the boxes entirely. I was not created to fit into a box or conform to societal standards. I was fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God tasked to bring Christ’s kin-dom here on earth. I am different. And my difference matters, and makes me unique.
2022 Lenten Devotional-Week 4
Like Nicodemus, looking for Jesus at night, I approached the experience of fasting for five days with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in front of the offices of Nelson Peltz in Manhattan with more doubts than answers. I fasted with the intention of continuing the call to Wendy's to join the Fair Food Program, which among other things promotes the cessation of sexual abuse experienced by women in the agricultural fields.
2022 Lenten Devotional- Week 3
This Lent, I will look for God to meet me in those places of despair, helplessness, grief, sorrow... I will “find my rest in God alone and remember that my hope comes from him.” I may not get the easy solutions and answers I want, but I receive God’s presence within the unresolved.
2022 Lenten Devotional- Week 2
This Lenten season, I’m setting an intention to start each morning in prayerful reflection, to bring to God in faith the matters that I feel so passionate I give my time to throughout the month. More than the daily prayer that opens my day, I’m talking about being intentional with each group, or issue, or problem that calls me to do justice work.