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March 5 Lenten Devotional

LIVING, LEARNING & LOVING during LENT Ash Wednesday – Lent Begins: Lenten devotionals for March and April. We will focus on a different concept each day of the week: Sundays: Resting/Taking Sabbath Mondays: Fasting Tuesdays: Giving Wednesdays: Serving Thursdays: Praying Fridays: Studying/Learning Saturdays: Celebrating/Playing. March 5 (Wednesday – Serving) Scripture: Matthew 25:40 – And the […]

Ash Wednesday reflection

If you have become ash, Then wait, you become a rose again. And do not remember how often you have become ash, But how often you were reborn in ashes to a new rose. ~ Rumi I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. […]

Lent Devotion Day 1 (Feb 22): ASH (from Isaiah 58: 1-12).

SONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX11yw6YL1w&feature=youtu.be QUOTE: Cormac McCarthy: All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. POEM: Tahar Ben Jelloun. The Rising of the Ashes [Before] – excerpt: I pace the abyss. I descend. I am suspended. The ashes still […]

Ash Wednesday with JCC: Reflections and schedule

JOEL 2:12-13Yet even now, says the Lord,  return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;  rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord your God, for God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love… WED, Feb 22 MUSINGS on ASH If you have […]

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