by debracelovsky | Mar 26, 2024 | Lent/Easter
Matthew 21:23–Chapter 25 Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Voiceless, 1858 This quote comes to mind as I read Matthew’s account of all Jesus said and did on this day. It is astonishing. He...
by debracelovsky | Mar 25, 2024 | Lent/Easter, Word
Read Mark 11:12-19 and Matthew 21:12-14 (and see John 2:13-17) Monday of Passion Week begins with a tree. Yesterday, Jesus entered Jerusalem to wild acclaim—a forest of palm branches, cheering crowds, his disciples clearing a path for the humble beast and its humble...
by debracelovsky | Mar 22, 2024 | Lent/Easter
I read John 11, Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:11, and Luke 19:41-44 in this order In 2022, I stood once again on the Wall surrounding the Old City of Jerusalem, looking across to the Mount of Olives. Once covered in olive groves, its slopes over the past three thousand...
by debracelovsky | Mar 8, 2024 | One Year Bible, Word
I can tell you from continuing experience that we never stop learning things about ourselves. The work of Christ illuminates that self-willed inner us and asks—again and again—what we intend to do about it. Case in point. I was checking out several sites for an...
by debracelovsky | Feb 12, 2024 | Valentine's Day
Due to the trepidatious occurrence of Lent again commencing on Valentine’s Day, I have—again— decided to make a different kind of Lenten offering. Rather than give up sugar, an obvious choice year to year with my proclivities, or chocolate, which I’ve...
