Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Today’s lectionary first reading from Acts 16 tells us of Paul and Silas, praying and singing in prison, when an earthquake rattles the place to its foundation, throwing open the doors… Continue reading Courage and Faith in Staying Put
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Recharging Our Spiritual Batteries
Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Luke’s Acts of the Apostles is, as one might infer from the title, full of action. It’s almost like an action-adventure movie as the disciples go from one place to another,… Continue reading Recharging Our Spiritual Batteries
Let’s Make a Deal
Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. “No one can take them out of my hand,” Jesus says of his followers in today’s Gospel reading from John 10. He makes it all sound so easy: he leads, we… Continue reading Let’s Make a Deal
Commending the Spirit… and Our Future
Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Recently, I spent time with someone I consider a special friend, though we don’t see each other as often as we’d like. I remarked that it had been almost ten years… Continue reading Commending the Spirit… and Our Future