Posted in Church Year on Apr 21st, 2011
On Sunday during Communion we sang a familiar worship chorus in which the second verse begins, “Into the river I will wade. There my sins are washed away.” I had always thought of that river as the river of baptism, but it struck me as we sang that the river we wade into is also [...]
Posted in Church Year on Apr 12th, 2011
Some people have a gift for beauty. It seems that anything they touch turns lovely. They turn meals and rooms and anything else they make into works of art. I am not one of those people. I am not artsy or craftsy. I do not draw. Or sew. Or knit. Or decorate. Or anything. But [...]
Posted in Church Year, Spiritual Life on Apr 8th, 2011
Today’s post is by Susan Forshey, PhD candidate in Practical Theology at Boston University, contemporary contemplative, amateur photographer, and my dear friend. She writes here about the ancient practice of lectio divina, a way of prayerfully reading Scripture – or life. ***** Walking up the hill, I came to a corner cottage with a second [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.