Love is sacrifice…and sacrificed.

March 27, 2012

  This is the vehicle of Your death, Lord. The hammer is raised. Your heart races… soon it won’t be able to. But now it quickens as You anticipate… pounding of hammer. to. nail. It might seem to take forever for the hammer to drop, but it is driven through. Can You stop Yourself from […]

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Love says thank you 1,000 times (#’s 841-851)

March 25, 2012

source I’ve been thinking lately about empathy… crying when someone cries… feeling loss when someone else does. It’s more than acknowledging pain…but feeling it… like a mama does when her babies are hurting. Thank you God… #841… that You know…You know… every pain… every burden… every worry. You have felt everything we feel because You […]

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Love lies open…vulnerable…real

March 23, 2012

source The 10th Station of the Cross…You, Lord, are publicly stripped of your garments. And I don’t need much inspiration to understand this. I know this, having been dressed down and humiliated so recently by people I never thought would do it. sadness… disappointment… pain (not the physical kind)… embarrassment… and humility that I know […]

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Love sacrifices…empties itself…takes the form of a slave

March 20, 2012

source 34 hours into my Lenten fast, and desire for food is gone… or maybe it’s submitting to the desire to meditate on You. More. Lord… to talk to You more…make use the focus this fast is yielding. And I read Ann today and this struck me… “…the call isn’t so much about carrying your […]

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Love believes BIG through the little OR the big

March 18, 2012

source There are women crying for You, Lord… maybe for show…maybe for real. But they don’t do what Veronica did…and bravely and kindly…help You. They don’t do what Mary did…and rush to be near You….and stay till the end. They don’t even do what Simon of Cyrene did…begrudgingly ease Your burden. They don’t approach… they […]

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Love falls…face to the ground…to meet us where we are

March 15, 2012

source Yesterday I thought of the help You received on the Via Dolorosa, Lord (here and here). It might seem the Romans were merciful. But their allowance was more for them than You. You were slowing down their schedule… It was not so much mercy as time management. I’m recounting the journey of my 48 […]

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Love makes the simple sacrifices

March 14, 2012

source A simple piece of art adorning the walls of The Holy Family Church, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I chose it because love makes simple sacrifices. The grand acts are sometimes used to draw attention to the giver. The simple ones draw attention to the need…to the gift…to love. Simple art…simple sacrifice…simple love…the Fifth Station […]

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