by Lane | Devotional, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Practices, Stations of the Cross
As summer winds down, autumn winds up. We step into the new season, and suddenly, many decisions crop up as invitations appear at every junction. They shout at me from across the computer screen. They whisper a friendly hello and a greeting in my physical mailbox. For...
by Lane | Devotional, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Practices
As we enjoy the month when the 4th of July greets us, freedom is a primary theme. Just look around. Flags flutter in the summer breeze, displays of patriotic red, white, and blue. Symbolic colors of freedom pop up everywhere. Signs proclaim: “Let freedom ring. Home of...
by Lane | Devotional, Spiritual Practices
How do we hold grief and loss amid a tragedy? The rage of a river, flash floods in Texas over the Fourth of July, unleashes a rage of questions, groans, and grief, doesn’t it? I remember a discussion once about reading the Bible and the culture & its news as a...
by Lane | Devotional, Easter, Pentecost
Easter morning shouts, “Celebrate!” We greet one another with jubilant phrases: “Alleluia! Christ is risen!” “The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia!” After forty days of Lent, full of fasting and the ups and downs of Holy Week, we are more than ready to...
by Lane | Devotional, Writing
Grief visits us all. Perhaps the grief of the day feels small, one drop upon a large pond. Perhaps the grief of the day descends like a sudden storm on a calm lake, upending all in its path. Grief accompanies loss. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ book On Death and Dying...
by Lane | Devotional, Easter, Lent, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Practices, Writing
On Ash Wednesday, I enter the dim sanctuary to hear my beginning and ending declared: “from dust you are, to dust you shall return.” (Gen. 3:19) The rector marks my forehead with ashes. In the starkness, I mourn. I ache. I long. I grieve. So...
