Tag: 2013 Lent Reflections

"Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." -Mark 12:30 God wants to be with you. It’s all He's ever wanted, that's why He made you. Look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. They walked with … Continue reading Lent Reflection: All of Me for All of Him

In my Christian Spirituality class at Messiah College we were talking about the Holiness Tradition recently. Before I dive into some thoughts I have of the class discussion, let me provide some background. For the class, we are reading Richard Foster’s Streams of Living Water. In the book there are six traditions discussed: The Contemplative … Continue reading Lent Reflection: A Transformational Time

This past October I had the opportunity through my seminary to spend a week at the Abbey of Gethsemani monastery in Kentucky. It was an amazing time of silence, solitude and retreat. During a day we spent in complete silence our professor encouraged us on to take a prayer walk. We had been told by … Continue reading Lent Reflection: There Is No Destination

I've always wondered what it would be like to come into Ellis Island on a boat as an immigrant and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time. I can’t imagine the burden that must have been lifted from one's shoulders as they see Lady Liberty reaching out to them. I wonder what each … Continue reading Lent Reflection: Rest for the Weary

I love all of the symbolism in the Bible and around Easter we tend to focus on a specific one, the one Jesus used himself at the Last Supper. Jesus offered himself: to the disciples in the form of the bread and the wine, but this isn't the symbol I want to focus on today. … Continue reading Lent Reflection: Hidden Meanings