Circling Lent: Dismal

It’s a dull, dreary, drizzly, DISMAL day. It’s Ash Wednesday and I pulled into the parking lot of the church where the service is taking place in order to get set up so that I wasn’t rushed this evening, only to discover that I left the key to that church at home! I am usually…

Lenten Photo-A-Day: Gather

Today is the first day in the season of Lent, a time of repentance, reflection and renewal. This year I am following the Lenten Photo A Day practice or discipline from RethinkChurch as a way of entering into Lent more fully. Today I gathered some of the things that I will need for the Ash…

My Father’s Ashes

It’s been two months since I wrote a post. Two months that have been demanding professionally and personally as my congregation and I dealt with a number of deaths, including the most recent one, that of my father two and half weeks ago. My father’s death was sudden and shocking, his body unexpectedly succumbing to…