Winning a New Name (Meditation 71)
We live in a dualistic culture where it seems everything is a competition and our only purpose is winning. Worse, when we do not win, whatever that actually means, we…
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Enduring Love Grown Cold (Meditation 70)
It seems that when cataclysmic events happen, some preacher or self-proclaimed prophet points to the more apocalyptic parts of the Bible, connects a handful of loosely related dots, and declares…
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Wisdom Vision (Meditation 69)
At funerals, we usually say nice things. By general social convention, we have decided that it is wrong to “speak ill of the dead,” even if we feel poorly towards…
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A Hidden Reward (Meditation 68)
It is human not only to desire acknowledgment but to feel it is necessary. We work hard, and it seems natural to expect not only the compensation that is due…
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Learning the Way (Meditation 67)
I sincerely wish that everyone could have the experience of learning from at least one great teacher. Not the cool teacher or the nice teacher, but one who awakened a…
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The Lenten Harvest
My Catholic mother made sure all of us had something to “give up” for Lent. Sometimes she chose it for me, or at least strongly encouraged what should be the…
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The Only Requirement (Meditation 66)
Before Christ fed four thousand (probably more actually), he did not ask them to fill out forms or prove their worthiness. He did not ask their political affiliations, their theological…
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Uncovered (Meditation 65)
A band I have followed for decades, The Seventy Sevens, released an album in 1992 entitled Pray Naked. The Christian label they were signed to at the time marketed the…
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Laboring in God’s Time (Meditation 63)
One of the most difficult parts about being a teacher is not seeing the fruit of one’s labors. Sure, during the course of the semester a student or two will…
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Our Fragile Light (Meditation 62)
This verse first became meaningful to me during a time of crisis when I was in college so many years ago the remembrance of pain seems sharper than many of…
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