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Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     We pray for the people and communities affected by severe storms and flooding this spring. We hold them in the light of God’s mercy, and in the care of our own hearts. Even when all is devastated, God is still present, still loving, still creating. As… Continue reading Complicity

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you. I ran in a 5K race yesterday, a cancer center fundraiser. It was a “race,” but except for the first two or three runners, we weren’t competing against each other. If anyone was competing at all, it was against the clock, against our own inertia, our own inner… Continue reading 5K

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?          —John 14.2           We usually think Jesus is talking about the afterlife here. But Jesus is always much… Continue reading In my Father’s house

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     In great mercy God has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you. In this you rejoice, even if now for… Continue reading Welcome to heaven

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     They came and laid hands on Jesus and arrested him.          — Matthew 26.50 O Christ in prison, God in human chains, hear our prayer. We ask your forgiveness, healing and peace for all who are imprisoned, whether justly or unjustly. Though they are treated inhumanely may… Continue reading A prayer for Christ imprisoned

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     While they were eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.” … He took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which… Continue reading Divine kindness

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     Though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” The disciples said to him,… Continue reading Courage

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might… Continue reading But now I see

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     I went to the desert last month. Not out west, but down in Boston. After her surgery, Beth was in the hospital for six days, and I stayed with her in her room and waited on her. For me it was a desert experience, a time… Continue reading Monotasking

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?… Therefore do not worry, saying, “What will we eat?’ or “What will we drink?’ or “What will we wear?” … But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these… Continue reading Strive first for the community