Lent Day 6. A central focus of Lent is prayer, as we “re-set our souls for Easter’s Celebration.” To date spending concentrated time on prayer has reminded me: 1) Prayer is the way to spiritual aliveness and renewal. 2)…
Lent Day 5. Yesterday, I leaned into the prayer we know as The Jesus Prayer (Luke 18:13). It became my 1 Thessalonians 5:17 prayer. You know the “pray without ceasing” prayer. It is convicting…and humbling to pray The Jesus Prayer.…
Lent Day 4. “But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ Luke 18:13 Lent reminds me…
Lent Day 3 My Lenten goal: to “re-set” my soul prior to Easter’s celebration In my research on Lent, and the history of it, I bumped into this following prayer written by St. Ephrem the Syrian, sometime during his…
LENT DAY 2 Lent. It’s meant to be a season-of-Sabbath, of sorts. A follower-of-Jesus-Reset. A time to take a deep, cleansing, Spiritual breath and get back to Biblical basics. The Early Church Fathers saw it as a time to…
This morning marks the beginning of Lent, 2017. I don’t celebrate Lent in the traditional sense. If I did, I’d have been at an early morning church service, hearing a message that wove around the truth that I once…
This is a funny (enjoy a laugh)… …but this little meme is an important indicator for keeping the soul growing, as opposed to decaying (as we learned last week). So, keep reading. I was born a natural “half-glass-empty-girl.” If…
There are times I wish I had gotten my PhD. I think, probably, I would have found it helpful in some arenas. For example, as our team was repacking all the items to head to Cuba (we had to…
The week before heading to Cuba, I sprinted Way-Up-North to speak for a women’s conference at a church in the Toronto area. It was spur of the moment. The event hadn’t been on my calendar. I hadn’t been on…
Tomorrow I leave for a week long trip to Cuba (that means I’m writing this blog about four days early, and hope to post it once there, as normal). I’m excited. I love the island. I love the people.…