While reading my scriptures for this devotional and searching for inspiration online, I came across the website www.praythepsalms.com and the following prayer by Mark D. Roberts. It is a simple, beautiful prayer that we can reflect on — not only during Lent but in our everyday lives. It is easy to get so caught up in our daily lives that we lose track of
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Fascinating stories headline today’s readings. We begin with the middle section of the story of Joseph from Genesis, picking up at the point where Joseph has become rich and powerful in Egypt. He receives the brothers who betrayed him with equanimity and offers them gifts and riches to return to Canaan and bring their father, Jacob, to him in Egypt. Forgiveness in the face
What are we to make of Jesus not doing deeds of power due to the lack of belief of the people in his hometown of Nazareth? Just prior to this scene in Mark’s Gospel, we encounter stories of extraordinary healing miracles that include pleas for help. Jairus begs Jesus to heal his daughter. The woman with a hemorrhage boldly reached out for Jesus and
I have learned more about wound care in the last several months than I ever wanted to know. Among the things I’ve learned: sometime in the last few decades, surgeons realized that sewing up all their incisions didn’t always work out. For one thing, it can make it tougher to treat infection and can even increase the odds infection will occur. So when they
Lord, God, our Father, we thank you that here with each other we can call on you and listen to you. Before you, we are all equal. You know the life, thoughts, path, and heart of each of us, down to the smallest and most hidden detail, and before your eyes none is righteous, no, not one. But you have not forgotten, rejected or
Déjà vu, all over again: “I wonder who that masked man was?!” Two stories of mistaken identity. No, worse: of hindered recognition! In Genesis 43, famine has struck. Joseph’s brothers journey to buy corn from the Pharoah, as there are supplies still in Egypt. They’ve already made one successful trip; however they failed to notice that their benefactor, Pharoah’s #1 Man, is … their
On an upcoming pilgrimage to Tanzania, where our sister village of Gawaye is, parishioner Ethan Mandel will represent the Church of the Ascension, bringing greetings and gifts to the church in Gawaye. But we need your help to send him there — and then bring him back home!
Whenever Paul starts writing about sin, many people get squeamish, particularly if they have to read aloud some of his long lists of sins. It feels like there’s something of the Pharisee still lingering in his disposition, even though he preaches that the works of the Law cannot save us. Today’s passage from his letter to the Corinthians, however, opens new insight into his
Barbara Cawthorne Crafton is an Episcopal priest and author. She heads The Geranium Farm, an institute for the promotion of spiritual growth. The Farm publishes her Almost-Daily eMo, a meditation read online by tens of thousands worldwide via email and social media. She has served a number of churches, including historic Trinity Church, Wall Street, St. John’s-in-the-Village in Greenwich Village, St. Clement’s in Manhattan’s theatre