From 8/24/2022. CBB This picture depicts Jesus on the boat with the disciples after speaking to the storm, “Peace, be still .” I’ve had this picture since 1997, the year of a fierce spiritual figurative “storm” in my life. It had hung...
Writer Sarah Westfall writes about praying through poetry: “In the thick of 2020, I found it difficult to pray. Words with God did not come easily, stalling and falling short each time I tried to gather them together into sentences. And while I knew God is in...
Sharing in the Suffering of Christ…….. A thought shared in social media by a friend, from C.S Lewis, and worth remembering; . “In Gethsemane, the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.” C.S.Lewis...
Prayer during Communion……another tradition. For a number of years now, since some Holy Communion services at Blue Lake Campground, it has been my practice to pray as I sit during the communion service after taking communion and as others go forward to...
From 8 years ago: When our faith stands at the grave,grieving for a stone that’s rolled away, forgive us. When our faith is short of understanding though the truth is there to see, forgive us. When our faith, beset by doubt, sees no further than an empty tomb...
