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Day 37: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 Where is God in all of this? I’m sure more than one person in this wide world is asking that question during this global pandemic. Below are some of my own ideas about where God is not, as well as where God is. I am not a theologian, soContinue reading “Where Is God?”

Day 36: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Today the sun was shining, the bids were singing, the flowers were popping up all over, the breezes were gentle: Spring has arrived. And we needed it to come—just being able to be outside in the warmth cheered us. And on the pandemic front, there was a bit ofContinue reading “Prayer in the Daily”

Day 35: Monday, April 6, 2020 The last days of the Israelites’ time in Egypt, the last days of the disciples’ time with Jesus, the unending days of the world’s population in the grip of a pandemic. Surreal is the only word to (in)adequately describe this time in our world against the backdrop of Lent.Continue reading “Trust. Surrender. Faith.”

Day 34: Saturday, April 4, 2020 Anyone who knows me knows that I have lots of mugs. I love mugs because I love coffee and tea. Big steaming mugs make me happy, morning, noon, and night. This morning, I did what I do every morning. I chose a mug to fill with coffee. Today IContinue reading “Giving Thanks in This Time”

Day 33: Friday, April 3, 2020 One more week of Lent. I wish we could say there was just one week left of the COVID-19 pandemic. But these two events are following different trajectories. Even though we can’t hurry the calendar, we know that Easter is coming. As we follow Christ through the last daysContinue reading “The Last Week?”

Day 32: Thursday, April 2, 2020 Today was our first adventure into the big wide world that is newly made because of our stay-at-home orders. We had to break the order so that we could return our granddaughter to her home in southern Illinois.  In some ways, we didn’t prepare differently—we gathered water bottles, travelContinue reading “Daily Reality: Caution and Sorrows”

Day 31, Wednesday, April 1, 2020 This evening I want to cry over this crisis we are in. Not for any particular reason—just because people are dying, and they are dying alone because of the CDC guidelines. The guidelines are necessary, but healthcare workers have pleaded for more masks and more personal protective gear soContinue reading “And so I Feel like Crying”

Day 30, March 31, 2020 The daily lectionary readings for the Old Testament during this Lenten season have been from the beginning of the Bible—Genesis and Exodus. The stories have been of the patriarchs, from Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to the twelve sons—then the jump of 400 years to the story of Moses andContinue reading “The “Best of Times””

Day 28: Saturday, March 28, 2020 (finished Sunday, March 29) I just finished watching the documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” about Fred Rogers. I have to admit that I cried during most of the second half. What a wonderful man he was—true, consistent, wise, trustworthy, loving, full of integrity—people could just pile up descriptionsContinue reading “Mr. Rogers and COVID-19”

Day 29, Monday, March 30, 2020 Jesus is on his way to the cross. The time is getting near. We heard it in our Sunday scripture where Jesus weeps over Lazarus’s grave, but, perhaps, weeps, too, in anticipation of his own death. And we have the scripture which retells Mary’s extravagant sacrifice of the costlyContinue reading “Sunday is Coming”