He is Risen. She is Too.
There was no sunny joy on Easter Sunday, 1971. Instead of going to my grandparents’ church and then hunting Easter eggs under the East Texas pines, we were at our home church for the first time that I could remember. A car wreck on the road to our annual Easter celebration had ended my sister Martha’s life and changed our lives forever. Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
Just in Time
A few years ago during Easter week a wise friend leaned across the pews after a noontime service and said, “Easter always comes just in time.” I didn’t ask him what he meant, but I knew that he knew that I had been through a rough time. And the sly smile on his face showed that he also knew that there were hints of better times in the air. Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
Dirty Feet and All
“A new command I give you: Love one another.” That is the maundy – the commandment – that Jesus gave his disciples in the upper room on that last night together. It seems so simple, so logical, so natural, and yet it is perhaps the hardest commandment to keep. For me, anyway. Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
