Monthly Archives: March 2015

Lenten reflection on scripture — fig tree by the side of the road

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Maren

(Mark 11:12-14;20-25) It is not the season — for my child to survive cancer, for my job to be daily joy, to my marriage to be tasty and full of seeds. It is not the season — for my father … Continue reading →

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Lenten reflection on scripture — in the temple

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Maren

(Mark 11: 15-18) I am a catcher of pigeons, a lucky one on this morning of upturned tables and feathers. I do not steal coins, even though they roll to my toes, even though I was praying in this house … Continue reading →

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Lenten scriptures for reflection — And there were ordinary people, too

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Maren

(Luke 19:28-40) My granddaughter Hannah picked up a palm branch. She ran over and gave it to me. Here it is – dry and brittle already just like yesterday’s parade. We live on the pilgrim road at the Bethany end, … Continue reading →

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Lenten reflection on scripture — the woman with the alabaster jar

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Maren

(Mark 14: 3-9) In remembrance of her — break something. In remembrance of her – spill something. In remembrance of her pour a trip to Hawaii, tickets to a Broadway show, dinner at Wendy’s, a day of babysitting or respite … Continue reading →

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Dualities of Holy Week — Reading / Meditation from Aotearoa / New Zealand

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Maren

Rosalie Sugrue of Aotearoa / New Zealand offers a program for a small group or worship meditation. The use of a combination of physical objects — like the basins — or projected images from contemporary Israel or from works of … Continue reading →

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Lenten reflection on scripture — Psalm 139

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Maren

I used to think that this psalm was so very first personal singular, but it’s not. It is a psalm of how we are knit together. I planned to reflect on psalm 139 because it is my birthday and I … Continue reading →

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Lenten scripture for reflection — red-tailed hawk

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Maren

I hope that today will be the day that New Hampshire legislators apologize to the fourth grade students from the Lincoln Ackerman Elementary School whom they mocked last week by both joke and abusive imagery, when the young people presented … Continue reading →

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Lenten reflections on scripture — For New England Lay and Clergy Worship Leaders

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Maren

(Matthew 6: 25) Therefore I tell you, do not worry about the weather whether it will snow one more time or the sun will reach fingers of light and heat for bulbs planted deep, or about your Easter whether knee-deep … Continue reading →

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Lenten reflection on scripture — Untie the donkey

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Maren

Mark 11: 1-6 First, untie the donkey the one that’s standing at the gate waiting to be untied — from some sorrow or some guilt, from somebody else’s judgment — too young for the ride or too old, too much … Continue reading →

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Lenten reflection on scripture — writing on the heart

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Maren

(Jeremiah 31:33-34) God, forgive us our illiteracy of the heart – a not-reading and mis-interpretation that brings weeping to Tunis, wall-building to Arizona, racial profiling, the defining of revenge porn – as free speech, gun control – as abuse of … Continue reading →

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