The trees shimmer in an early evening wind that makes it difficult to see the small bird flitting to and fro, branch to branch. “There! That open twig,” I say. “I see it!” Emily exclaims, quickly taking the binoculars from me and adding blue-gray gnatcatcher to her beginners life list. This walk is a meditation. [...]
This morning I began a bird list for 2013. I went to a nearby park, listened and watched through the cold fog, and started to tick off the birds I saw: White-throated Sparrow, American Robin, Eastern Bluebird, Mourning Dove, American Crow, Dark-eyed Junco. So far I’ve seen twenty species–by the end of the year I [...]
Tomorrow churches that use the Revised Common Lectionary will read Mark 12:38-44 and most likely hear a sermon on it. Too often we don’t have time to really reflect on the Gospel read on Sunday. We hear it quickly and don’t have time to process it. Today, read the Gospel reading for this Sunday and [...]
The Beatitudes of Jesus are a statement on who is well off in the kingdom of God, but his beatitudes are clearly not the only statements of blessedness. All around us day in and day out we hear answers to the question of who is well off and those answers are more often than not at [...]
Spend 20 minutes contemplating your life. What are the things in your life that help you feel secure? Is it your job? Insurance? A growing retirement account? A gun under the bed? After contemplating your sources of security, replace each one in your mind with the often repeated phrase in the scriptures, “Do not fear [...]
The Exercise: Spend the last thirty minutes of the day in prayer and meditation. Dim or turn off all lights and light enough candles that you can see clearly enough to read. Read from the Sermon on the Mount for 10 min. Then spend 20 min in silent meditation. The Why: Our society is chronically [...]
Today, the Anglican/Episcopal church celebrates the feast day of William Tyndale who brought the bible into the English language. His work, persecuted by the monarchy and Church, was eventually appropriated by both to become the King James Bible. Tyndale’s work was to bring the Gospel into his place and time–that was what translating the scriptures [...]
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