Lessons: Joel 2:1-2,12-17 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 Psalm 103 Have you ever had the chance to work with an improv group? They have this technique for working together, a way to communicate and support each other live onstage in order to move the action forward. It’s called YES AND. Let me give you anContinue reading “Ash Wednesday by Holly Puckett”
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Ash Wednesday by the Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Joel 2:1-2,12-17 Psalm 103:8-14 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 As a child, I was fascinated with ash. My parents had a home with a fireplace, one of those incredibly inefficient brick boxes built into the wall that doesn’t so much generate heat as it sucks the air that the furnace has heatedContinue reading “Ash Wednesday by the Rev. Martin Elfert”
Ash Wednesday by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Joel 2:1-2,12-17 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 Psalm 103:8-14 * Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return. What an extraordinary sentence. What an unreal thing for one person to say to another. We could probably spend the rest of the day unpacking that sentence. We could write a bookContinue reading “Ash Wednesday by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
A Place of Stillness + Ash Wednesday by The Rev. Esme J. R. Culver
Lessons: Joel 2:1-2,12-17 Psalm 103:8-14 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 There comes a time for stillness. A time to stop. To assess. To look around what is on the outside of us and what is on the inside. A time to focus. A time to peer into with intention. It is a time of awareness. Continue reading “A Place of Stillness + Ash Wednesday by The Rev. Esme J. R. Culver”