Tag: Ash Wednesday

Nap time: Following the sleepy- headed Jesus this Lenten season

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During this season of Lent, I am following in the footsteps of Jesus and taking naps. I’m taking cat naps; I am catching a few winks. I am giving up the grind, the hustle and bustle of America’s capitalistic system. If it thrives on my hyper- productivity, then it will die quickly. I’m hitting the […]

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It’s our anniversary!

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I didn’t forget.  Though I don’t have flowers or dinner reservations, I wanted to wish us a happy eighth anniversary.  I have been writing, thinking, talking about the socio- political construct of race, the malformation of Christian community and the call to be reconciled in a world that thrives on division for 2,920 days.  It […]

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Return

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Return “…You are dust,     and to dust you shall return.” | Genesis 3.19, NRSV Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, the forty- day period where believers fall in step with Christ’s journey to the cross.  It is an exodus from excess.  We strip bare our lives from distractions that would take our […]

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Remember that you are dust

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“By the sweat of your face, you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it your were taken; you are dust and to dust you shall return.” {Genesis 3.19, NRSV} Perhaps, Ash Wednesday should be every day for we need to be reminded of what we are really made of.  […]

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