screaming pink
This morning in the Morning Office we say in psalm 102 " let my cry come before you" and I wonder if we really do. What would it mean for…
lenten leaches and lilies
My father loved to care for the lambs when they were first born at Dovehaven, our home in southern Quebec. The lambing season was always a tense time, since the…
lenten disciplines
This is Ash Wednesday. It begins a season of examination in which we ask ourselves the hard questions needing to be asked: "How have I failed to live in Christ's…
cream and Lent
The gospel reading today is from John's gospel and it is the accounting of John The Baptist's baptizing work and his call to be a voice in the wilderness on…
pre-lent brilliance and compassion
The prophet Isaiah speaks the "holy, holy, holy " of the sixth chapter of the book named for him and thereby ushers us into the Sanctus of our liturgy. As…
beloved hands
"I have taken you by the hand and kept you" These words from the prophet Isaiah come from today's readings for the feast of a saint who died for the…
light and dark
Darkness and light sit so well next to each other and yet the difference is as shocking as going from a sauna to an ice bath. The days are enfolded…
sparkle after a wipe
As the light fades from Christmas and the Epiphany season we enter soon into Lent. The lights of seasonal joy can easily seem to fade into a gloom of sin…
not so pretty in pink – our prisons
Sometimes our prisons can be beautiful. We see them through rose-colored glasses and though we are looking directly at the door to our prisons, it looks beautiful from our rose…
advanced spirituality
Steel cut oats with butter and salt remains one of my favorite foods, even without the senses of taste and smell. A simple food; it is comforting, iconic, uncomplicated and…