Tag Archives: Lent

Blessing 4: Generosity

Lent is typically not the time in the liturgical year to talk about abundance. So, it’s ironic that this year, I am becoming more and more aware of generous abundance in my life during this season where, in so many … Continue reading

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Blessings: Week 2 of Cultivating Sacred Space

This second week of Lent, the theme that found me in the midst of the lectionary readings was “Blessings.” It is also fitting that with St. Patrick’s Day approaching, this is a week when the lyrical lilt of Irish Blessings … Continue reading

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Holy Ground 6: Writing

The first full week of Lent is drawing to a close.  I have been “Cultivating Sacred Space” along with my faith community, and I have been writing on the theme of Holy Ground to correspond with the theme.  The past … Continue reading

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Holy Ground: Week 1 of Cultivating Sacred Space

This week, my writing and my spiritual journal follows the theme of Holy Ground, which is the weekly theme for the Lenten “Cultivating Sacred Space” virtual program I’m curating for my faith community. Feel free to join us; click the … Continue reading

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Pelican

Yesterday, a pelican crossed my path as I started out on my Lenten journey of Cultivating Sacred Space. Admittedly, it was not an actual flesh-and-blood pelican, but its appearance in my life on Ash Wednesday was fortuitous, nevertheless. This particular … Continue reading

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Lent 2014: Cultivating Sacred Space

It was last year, on Ash Wednesday, when I started this blog at the end of my work day. All that day, I had been recalling the memory of My First Ashes. I am fairly tech savvy because of some … Continue reading

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Fashnacht

There are so many names for this day: Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday, or as it was when I grew up, “the day Gramma made doughnuts.” In fact, it was one specific doughnut…the fashnacht…that was a staple this time … Continue reading

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Good Friday

It had been 40 days since my first ashes. Well, almost 40 days. It was Good Friday and I was home from college for a long Easter weekend. My clandestine basement foray into lenten ashes was still gnawing at my … Continue reading

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Prodigal Mother

I have been thinking today about a story that doesn’t really belong to me; it is the story of two people that I took in mostly by observation and just a touch of interaction.  It is their story, although I … Continue reading

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Snow drift

I was driving home after the longest of long days…a full slate of clients followed by an evening support group. It had been a hard winter in Buffalo, and today was the fourteenth day in a row of steady snow. … Continue reading

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