All Meditations
Failure and Forgiveness
posted on Apr 29, 2012Peter loved Jesus. He loved him so much that he could not be separated from Him. He followed him everywhere and when Jesus escaped alone to a mountain to pray, Peter and the disciples would go searching for Jesus. When they found him, they would s...
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Touch
posted on Apr 22, 2012Hundreds of years ago, a man lived a wild life. He loved women and enjoyed good wine. He relished parties and the good life. And his mother kept praying that he would find God. She told him whenever she saw him, "I am praying for you to find God."...
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For Kim
posted on Apr 19, 2012When we moved to Jacksonville, I was convinced that God was calling me to be the Dean of the Cathedral. This was all about me.We moved into a rental home for the first six months here. As we were unpacking boxes, a woman came over with her grandso...
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Perfection
posted on Apr 15, 2012I finally broke down and bought the book, The Hunger Games. It is simply written, fast-paced and incredibly violent. But I must say, I was captivated to the end. And it was the end that fascinated me the most.The story is about the future, when a ...
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Staying Me
posted on Apr 8, 2012Most of us are afraid to die. What scares us the most is oblivion, I think. We are afraid that we will simply cease to be. Many Christians who profess belief in eternal life have another fear. We fear that we will somehow be absorbed by God, that ...
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The Shift
posted on Apr 1, 2012Year after up year, since I was a young child, I have lived through this Sunday, Palm Sunday, and yet I am no closer to understanding it than I was as a child.How could the same people who cheered for Jesus and waved palms as he rode into Jerusale...
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Feel
posted on Mar 26, 2012Jesus is drawing closer and closer to Golgotha and to the cross. He is the only one who senses his own path, the only one who seems to know that something terrible is coming. Scholars have surmised for centuries about how much Jesus knew. Did he k...
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Lifting Up
posted on Mar 21, 2012The Hebrew people did not know how to be grateful. Perhaps their time in slavery had made them so miserable that all they could see was the negative. Once a slave, always a slave? Maybe God needed them to wander for forty years, and for an entire ...
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The Wilderness
posted on Feb 28, 2012Maria had never been in the woods. There were so few trees in Queens; but she had never thought about it. She just thought that concrete and graffiti were the way the world looked.Maria lived alone with her mom. Her mom had lots of boyfriends that...
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God's Will
posted on Feb 7, 2012When my son Max was about two, we went for a walk. I pushed him in the stroller around a beautiful duck pond near our house in Kansas. We planned on feeding the ducks with some bread from the pantry. It was a beautiful Saturday morning and the sun...
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Saint Thomas
Saint Andrew
The Feast of All Saints
St. Michael and All Angels