I had a very busy Tuesday, and so didn’t get a chance to post the picture I took yesterday morning. As you can see, the robin’s nest is deeper, denser, and sturdier. Mama Robin worked constantly, tucking herself deeper into the nest, and it looked like she was working the bottom of her new nest [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Robin’s Nest Update
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
New Life
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While I’m beginning to think that we need to consider a Committee on the Building of an Ark in these environs, with all the rain that has fallen in the past couple of days, the good side of that is that the blooming plants and shrubs are happily soaking all this water in. Further, the [...]
Light of Christ and Lights of the World
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I returned this afternoon from a weekend retreat with the St. Philip’s Vestry–my first one with them. From Friday evening until noon today, we spent good time together. We worked hard, reflected, talked about our hopes and dreams for the parish, laughed and had fun, broke bread, prayed, worshipped, and celebrated Eucharist.
On Friday night, the [...]
Virginia Tech One Year Later
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One year ago, one person destroyed lives and innocent perceptions about the world on the Virginia Tech campus. I wrote a poem that morning. Maybe I will re-post it here later today, after my Bible Study this morning. In the meantime, if you go back to my April 2007 archives, or do a search on [...]
My Little Corner of Mother Earth
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Spring seems to be an elusive tease this week. In the past seven-ten days, we’ve had only one full day of warmth and sunshine here in Laurel, Maryland. Not that we’ve had pouring rain all that time, but the skies have been cloudy and gray. As I said to someone, God has used that gray [...]
Wine on the Table, Bread in the Hand, Fire in the Heart
Posted in Sermons on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Luke 24:13-35
When it comes to telling the family story, Mark, Matthew, Luke and John are not unlike four brothers at a family reunion. Someone remembers something that happened when they were children. A second one interrupts: “Now that’s not the way I remember that.” By the time the others have chimed in with their versions, [...]
Wed Evening Musings
Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So after all the sessions of a Lenten study (one on Sunday mornings, the other on Wednesday evenings), all the preparations for, then services of, Holy Week, and finally the Easter Vigil (at which we baptized three young men–one ten years old, one seven years old, one just past his first birthday) and Day of the Resurrection, [...]
