With Easter quickly approaching, anticipation at our house is building for our traditional egg fights and kielbasa-horseradish-egg-mayo "slurries". It just wouldn't be Easter without competitive egg fights that always mysteriously have a raw egg or two thrown in for good measure. Nor would Easter be complete without seeing at least one or two be brought to tears for ingesting a tad too … [Read more...]
DYING to Live
April 4, 2012 By 8 Comments
I love re-reading a well-known passage of Scripture and noticing something new. Has that ever happened to you? It happened most recently reading through the Palm Sunday passages in the four gospels. Normally I've stopped at the "end of the story" but this time I just kept reading. And in so doing, I rediscovered a beautiful passage in John that often gets overlooked during Holy Week … [Read more...]
AVOIDING Palm Sunday Nostalgia
April 1, 2012 By 4 Comments
Sunday was Palm Sunday. I have many fond childhood memories of Palm Sunday processionals up and down the church aisles, waving palm branches and shouting "Hosanna, Hosanna in the Highest! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!" Maybe I've become cynical in my old age, but Palm Sunday doesn't hold the same nostalgic charm for me anymore. Maybe it's the fact that Jesus' … [Read more...]
Preparing to reflect…
March 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Several months ago I wrote about a precious gift given to me by "Henry". The generous gift's value wasn't monetary, but sentimental. Unexpected, undeserved, thoughtful gifts like that children's Bible from Henry sometimes catch us off guard. Every time I notice it sitting on my bookshelf, I can't help but smile and recall its meaning and significance. In fact, the more I reflect on … [Read more...]
