Persistent Caller
Gordon Cosby used to say that call is “big, impossible and persistent.” And each time my call has changed form, it has felt that way to me. Big because it’s more than I can manage without doing a serious purge of current obligations. Impossible to accomplish alone so I will need to involve others. And […]
Is It Enough?
Mary Magdalene encounters an empty tomb and runs to tell the others. They come but are able to see no significance in this emptiness. And so they leave.* Mary, on the other hand, brimming with expectancy, suddenly sees Jesus in the emptiness. Death, for Mary, does not steal him away from her. In the dark […]
Unbroken
The young rabbi comes in on an unridden colt, who can’t be much older than his ministry.* An innocent, unbroken beast of burden. He carries Jesus into the center of everything. It may appear the most humble and passive way to come into Jerusalem. Yet, it is a ride of defiance. Entering like no one […]
Finding Life
Verna Dozier, an early member in the Church of the Saviour, wrote that the green hill outside of Jerusalem existed in God’s heart long before Jesus was born. It is important to continue to ponder that statement and that hill, perhaps especially during Lent. That green hill is the place of agonizing surrender. It is […]
