Category Archives: Meditation & Prayer
God’s Creative Extravagance
Why such extravagance, Lord? Why such indescribable beauty with no one to see it for almost all of time? Continue reading
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Easter Sunday: Is “Amen” the end, or just the beginning?
A meditation for Easter Sunday: “Amen” the last word of Handel’s Messiah, sung about 49 times for emphasis Continue reading
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Lent Diary 2012: Easter Saturday and Handel’s Messiah
“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by His blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Blessing and honour, glory and power, be unto Him … Continue reading
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Law & Order: A Prayer of Confession
We have allowed criminality to become subjective. Those whose crimes are greater than ours on some subjective scale of criminality are the real criminals Continue reading
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A Ladder or a Cross: a Prayer at Jesus’ Feet
(A prayer used with the previous post, Tears, Grace and an Alabaster Jar) Failure, sinner, used, unloved, rejected, despised. The world has high standards and rejects those who don’t measure up. We feel the weight of failure and rejection every … Continue reading
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The Cross and the Flood
Floods come in many forms; there is help at the edge. Continue reading
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