The God of Abraham praise, who reigns enthroned above; Ancient of everlasting days, and God of Love; Jehovah, great I AM! by earth and Heav’n confessed; I bow and bless the sacred Name forever blessed. “The God of Abraham Praise” by Thomas Olivers, c. 1775, v.1. From Cyberhymnal.org. The story of God’s chosen people, Israel, … More Readings for Week #3

“But please, please–won’t you–can’t you give me something that will cure Mother?” Up till then he had been looking at the Lion’s great front feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face. What he saw surprised him as much as anything in his whole life. For … More Reflections on Clue #2

~By Meg Saunders “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time” (Romans 8.22). “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to … More God Doesn’t Leave Us In Our Mess

After spending a week meditating on Creation, and on the blessing it is to be created by God, the Story takes a sudden and tragic turn. The first two people on earth go against the only prohibition God sets for them, and the disaster that follows is complete. They are ejected from the garden into … More Readings for Week #2

Today is my third day without knitting, and I’d be lying through my teeth if I said it’s gone smoothly. Sometimes “giving something up” for Lent doesn’t really do it for me, because in my laziness I will just find another comfort mechanism to abuse until the fast is over. This is why fasting from … More Reflecting on Clue #1: Creation

~By Meg Saunders. To subscribe to her weekly devotional newsletter, “First Things,” from which this is taken, see the bottom of this post. “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness’ . . . So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created … More God, Our Creator

This week in the Lenten Mystery Knit-Along and study of The Drama of Scripture, we begin this journey at the very beginning. Here we get to take some time to meditate on God’s awesome act of creating the universe. Before sin ever came into the picture, the earth and all that is in it (including … More Readings for Week #1

If you are new to Lent, then after yesterday’s brief treatise on Lent, you might be saying to yourself: That sounds beautiful and meaningful. But…. why give up stuff for Lent? It’s the idea of fasting. Fasting usually means giving up food, but it doesn’t have to be limited to that. Lent is a time … More The Lenten Fast

“Lord, who throughout these forty days for us didst fast and pray, Teach us with thee to mourn our sins, and close by thee to stay.” -Claudia Frances Hernaman (1838-1898). From the 1982 Hymnal, #142 v. 1. I can’t even spell liturgiologist, nor am I a pastor, nor even much of a theologian. But especially … More Lent & Time