Category Archives: Whispers

May there be peace in our days

The readings from Sirach end this week in this year’s cycle.  Interesting.  First, recall that Sirach (also titled, Ecclesiasticus) is not included in Protestant bibles.  No, it was excluded, along with other Old Testament books, by Luther and the Reformers … Continue reading

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How Surely Gravity’s Law

Very often when I read Psalm 55 I am prompted to say to the psalmist, “Just stop already. Your prayers won’t be answered as long as you insist that God do it your way.  Let go and let God, for … Continue reading

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Old School, New School, Law and Grace, Both-And

I had a short conversation with a dear friend yesterday that stuck with me all day long and through a long drive in which I listened to an audiobook of Richard Rohr’s, thereby inviting him into the conversation going on in … Continue reading

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The Broad Place – God’s kingdom – has no boundaries

FB post by Trinity Seasons on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 7:33am The Gospel reading today continues in Luke.  Jesus has been teaching his disciples and an ever growing crowd how to pray, he has been casting out demons and illustrating how to … Continue reading

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I beg to differ…

…as the brilliant Piraro illustrates here.   But not with anything of scriptural substance.  No, today I beg to differ with those who convinced me to switch from a PC to an Apple Macbook.  I’ve been at the conversion for a … Continue reading

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I-thou and you

Today’s reading from the Gospel of Luke is a familiar one; Jesus is answering a lawyer’s query about what it takes to be saved, to secure eternal life – actually to ‘inherit’ eternal life. And Jesus instructs the questioner to … Continue reading

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God’s time IS time

Just a quite whisper from the Revelation reading this morning about time – God’s time – from this verse: 8:1 When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 2And I saw the … Continue reading

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Made in God’s image inside and out

Today’s post is a re-post – one I wrote earlier this year but didn’t publish here on this blog. It was written before I began to edit my reflections to shorten- so I apologize for the length and rambling nature … Continue reading

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God calling

I had a much overdue catch up conversation last night with a dear friend who is serving God’s church.  We went to seminary together for two years.  My friend not only completed the Masters, but was soon ordained and called … Continue reading

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Flips and Currents, and Rebuilding

Orientation.  Disorientation.  Reorientation – Walter Brueggemann’s apt description for a life of faith, a life glorifying God, the Father.   And this is what the reading from Jonah had me thinking about this morning.  Jonah was with God, then intentionally … Continue reading

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