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We tend to think of Lent as unmitigated suffering and heaviness but in this second week of the season of Lent we have this beautiful...

Lent is a season of certainties and mysteries. The great certainty of God’s unending love for us expressed in the passion of Jesus for us...

From dust you came and to dust you shall return. A mediation on dust. (Ash Wednesday. Matthew 6:1-21: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; Psalm 51:1-17;...

On Palm Sunday we usually gather in a crowd and remember that first crowd waving palms. This year we need to go deeper and inward.

In the shadow of suffering and death we are invited to see a foretaste of resurrection.

We both desire to be seen and loved for who we are and we fear being seen. This week we are invited to see as God sees.

Water is the literal and spiritual source of life. Jesus offers living water to those who thirst.

Lent is not only about abstinence and suffering. We are also invited to be reborn into new life.

The season of Lent can be quite confronting as we are challenged that our usual way of being needs to be stripped bare. Take courage.

From dust you came and to dust you will return. May Lent teach us the gift of dust.