Categories
Lent

Lent: From Right Information to the Right Way of Living

Peter, like many of us, had right information understood the wrong way. I’m not talking about head vs. heart knowledge.  I’m talk about having our mind set on human ways instead of God’s ways. Lent is the time to transform what we think to be right knowledge into the right way of living (because we […]

Categories
Lent Liturgical Calendar Recent Posts

Lent and Human Limitations

I often always tell people the best spiritual thing they could do is get a good night’s sleep.   Sleep is a necessary limitation to human striving, to the pride of achievement, or of the folly of wasted time.  Eventually we have to sleep. And I hate that.  I find it hard to take my own […]

Categories
missional prayer spiritual disciplines theology Uncategorized

Nothing as Something: Lenten Reflection #4

Sin is nothing masquerading as something.  Sin merely preys on something, on anything, but itself it is nothing.  Sin produces desire for what doesn’t exist.  It takes what is good, adds NOTHING to it, nothing but disordered desire, and, BAM, now there is something new, something disfigured and ugly.  Wanton desires warp creation (what is […]

Categories
missional prayer spiritual disciplines Uncategorized

“I can’t see my own face…” Lenten Reflection #3

He most identified with the picture to the left.  For the season of Lent, one of our artists here at Life on the Vine constructed a wall separating us from the altar, and on the top was a giant sign saying, “Separate.”  On the wall hangs four pictures indicating various ways of being separated: a […]

Categories
prayer

I’ve seen A Dying Eye: Lenten Reflection #2

I’ve seen a Dying Eye Run round and round a Room— In serach of Something—as it seemed— Then Cloudier become— And then—obscure with Fog— And then—be soldered down Without disclosing what it be ‘Twere blessed to have seen— (#547, Emily Dickinson) I haven’t died yet; but I’ve died thousands of times.  Sometimes to addictions.  Sometimes […]