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Scripture Reflection

Here I share the fruits of my personal reflection on the Word of God, whether I’m reading along with the lectionary readings for that week or exploring a particular book of the Bible. Enjoy the posts that appear below; you’ll find them with the most recent first. If you’re looking for something in particular, try typing a topic, book of the Bible, or other keyword into the search field at the bottom of the page. Topics I write about frequently include those listed below:

  • Joy
  • Thanksgiving
  • Anxiety (also Trials)
  • Forgiveness
  • God’s Love

 

GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO FRUITFULNESS—WHATEVER IT LOOKS LIKE NOW
We rounded the corner of our house after being away for a while and gasped.  Tire tracks churned through the yard.  Piles of rocks and flagstones, uprooted from the old terrace, lay everywhere.  The back yard was a rough sea of mud and debris.  "My garden!" was all I could think.  Everything from lilies to raspberries -- gone!  Who knew ...
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HOW WE CAN CARRY OUR CROSSES
Friday the 13th seems an appropriate day to be heading into Saturday’s Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. It brings to mind another Friday, the one that we call “good” — although it must have seemed anything but “good” to the disciples who witnessed it. But here is the glory of the Cross: that when God became man, ...
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ALWAYS LOOK OUT FOR NUMBER ONE (Who’s Number One?)
“Where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God….” (Ruth 1:16) These words have been sung at countless weddings – but they were first said not by a bride but by someone who turned her back on the sensible option for her own future, to ...
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THE ABC’S OF READING ST. PAUL—and an example to encourage you
I wouldn’t call St. Paul the master of the tweet. It would take three full tweets, in fact, to cover 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 — and that’s one of his shorter quotables. But it’s definitely worth sending out to your friends, if only they’ll pause long enough to take it in: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus ...
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ARE YOU LISTENING? GOD WANTS TO SPEAK
I was five and we were vacationing on Lantau island. Today an airport crowns the Hong Kong mountain. Back then, it hosted scores of families seeking respite from the summer heat. The tiny cabins were separated from the main peak, where we took meals at a common dining room, by a “saddle”: a flat, grassy strip of land with steep ...
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MOVIE NIGHT: A Lesson in Prayer from “Little Big Man”
Near the end of Little Big Man, the 1970 film with Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, and Chief Dan George, the aged medicine man—who has survived the massacre at Wounded Knee and seen victory at the Battle of Little Big Horn—prepares to die. On a high, lonely mountain he sings and dances before the god he calls “Grandfather” and he cries ...
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TRUST GOD, THE DIVINE ARTIST
The artist stands a full hour in the clearing, staring at the aspen trees. Her keen eyes trace the form of the trunks, feeling the way they curve back from the center; she explores the knots and crevasses, memorizing the patterns and colors of the bark. Later, she will sketch the tree from memory, then paint it as though she ...
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A WINDOW INTO HEAVEN & THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS
It’s one thing to know something in your head. It’s quite another to feel it in your bones. I had that experience recently in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. Dr. Edward Sri, who led our pilgrimage, had told us in advance what to expect: the grand central basilica, built over the graves of early Christians; the long colonnades stretched out ...
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STOP KEEPING SCORE! True love is not 50-50
“Everything is 50-50 in our marriage,” a friend told me. “That’s why it works.” I cringed, not knowing how to respond. Clearly she was proud of the way she and her husband shared things equally, down to the daily chores. But 50-50 isn’t just equal; it’s divisive. By which I mean you have to divide to reach it. Your eyes ...
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