

Lent 2025 Day 22: Mindful Resistance
“The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it—and those along your journey—warmly, kindly and mindfully.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru ...


Lent 2025 Day 21: When Endings Make Room for New Beginnings
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu We’ve passed the halfway mark of Lent. And I’ve done pretty well...


Lent 2025 Day 20: Healing Isn’t Linear – It’s Layered
"We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise." - Elliot Page Under the Stars, Junior Prom 1991....


Lent 2025 Day 19: Surrender, Uncertainty & Seeking Peace
“You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.” – Isaiah 26:3 They say, “When you make...


Lent 2025 Day 18: The Cost of Cruelty & The Weight of Shame
“When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you...


Lent 2025 Day 17: Letting Go, Trusting the Journey
Philippians 3:13-14 – “But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to...


Lent 2025: Third Sunday of Lent
It’s time for the annual spring cleaning. I like to think of it as a metaphorical cleansing of the soul. It reminds me of a scene from...


Lent 2025 Day 15: Faith, Justice, and Letting Go
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” – Psalm 34:18 I am a deeply spiritual person. Working...


Lent 2025 Day 14: A Prayer for Change & Connection
I used to be engaged to a minister. We were together for seven years before we Consciously Uncoupled. The words we chose were, “We were...


Lent 2025 Day 13: Holding Onto Friendship, Justice, and Hope
“Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.” – Isaiah 1:17...