I invite you, therefore in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting and self-denial and by reading and meditating on God's holy Word. --Ash Wednesday service, Book of Common Prayer The observance of Lent has seen a resurgence in recent years among those …
Author: HJBlack
A Year in Review: Crafts
I'm afraid my blog took a backseat for the last few months due to our move from Kansas back to Colorado. So I thought I'd ease my way back into writing with a run down of some crafting accomplishments from the last year. In February, we celebrated our nephew's marriage. Coming fast on the heels …
Advent Dawns
O Dayspring, splendor of light eternal and sun of righteousness; Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.O Antiphons, Traditional Advent is traditionally observed as a fast of self-reflection similar to Lent. However, my weeping in this season tends to be not so much for my own sinfulness as it …
Comfort Ye
"For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures, we might have hope." --Romans 15:4 I've been spending a lot of time with the prophets lately and finding them strangely comforting. Something about their unwavering confidence to speak God's word has been a …
Crow Flow
I have not had much appreciation for the crow. Squawkingly loud and mostly obnoxious, I have viewed them as primarily as annoying, if not a little bit creepy ("Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore'"). During my time in the Pacific Northwest, I learned that crows are revered by native cultures, but I couldn't really understand why. My …
Advent Expectation
Waiting, longing, anticipation . . . these words express one of the primary themes for the Advent season. In our own lives, we are not unfamiliar with waiting. Waiting has its simple forms: queuing in a traffic jam, sitting through soccer practice, or taking number 98 when they are serving number 32. But waiting also …
Duck Delicious
The air is cooler and the birds are starting to move. A couple of weeks ago, NB hunted his first teal season in Kansas with good success, about a dozen birds over 3 mornings of hunting. Blue-winged and green-winged teal are the first of the ducks to migrate through these parts to their winter home. …
Hope
"Let the Amen sound from His people again"Joachim Neander (1650-1680); Translated by Catherine Winkworth Today is a day to sing "Amen." Let's affirm with generations of saints--"Yes I believe." When Jesus tells the Pharisees to render to Caesar what is Caesar's, he also tells them to give to God what is God's. To give to God …
Power
"There is no fight He cannot win, no far place from which He cannot bring His children home."--Amanda Bible Williams, The Lord Is Our God It's pretty easy to recognize that we are currently living in a very hostile, public battle for power. But how often do we recognize the equally hostile, but much more …
Healing
"Wherever the brokenness of sin touches, wherever fragmentation and alienation occurs, the mission of God looks like putting back together what evil has torn apart."--Glenn Packiam Physical injuries often require external intervention to facilitate healing. Washing a laceration to remove impurities, soothing a wound with the application of ointment, the surgical alignment of bones, (in …
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