by debracelovsky | Mar 31, 2024 | Lent/Easter
Read Matthew 28:1-10 This blessed day dawns. When you read the gospel accounts of resurrection morning, there was a great deal of traffic back and forth to the tomb. The women, the disciples. Confusion, disbelief. I particularly enjoy reading where the women first...
by debracelovsky | Mar 30, 2024 | Lent/Easter
Read Matthew 27:62-66 I imagine it as a day of unearthly calm. Between the horror and terror of Friday, and the inexpressible joy of Sunday morning, there is a day. I take the liberty of speculating: the bodies have been removed, the crosses stand empty, and Saturday...
by debracelovsky | Mar 29, 2024 | Lent/Easter
The Gospel of John, Chapter 19 Following is from John Bunyan’s classic, Pilgrim’s Progress: Now I saw in my dream that the highway which Christian was to go was fenced on either side with a wall called Salvation (Isaiah 26:1). Up this way therefore did...
by debracelovsky | Mar 28, 2024 | Lent/Easter
Read The Gospel of John 13–17; and 18 These first five chapters are, in my opinion, among the most beautiful in scripture. From the moment Jesus enters the Passover room until he hears the approach of the mob in the Garden, love overshadows every word. Before Jesus...
by debracelovsky | Mar 27, 2024 | Lent/Easter
Read Matthew 11:28-30 for Jesus’ words of comfort; Matthew 26:14-16 and Luke 22:1-6 for other events unfolding at this time Over the fireplace in a retreat center deep in the redwoods here in Sonoma County is a quote by the Roman poet, Ovid: Take rest; the...
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...
