Love’s most faithful follower was His mama

March 13, 2012

source The beam on your shoulder, Lord… crowds pushing you along… whether or not your feet move… and one face you knew from birth… that face appears… Your Mom. It is the fourth Station of the Cross. Mary sees the Savior of the world, true… but a sword pierces her heart (LK 2:35)… because it’s […]

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Love says 1,000 thank you’s to God (#’s 815-827)

March 12, 2012

Mondays are for saying thank you’s to God… So I’m linking with Ann again… I’ve been doing this since I began blogging… And I’m kinda thankful for that… #815… (see above 【ツ】) Been thinking how often I forget how great God is. I get so caught up… in life on this spinning blue dot in […]

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Love is driven to the ground

March 9, 2012

source (the following are from the same artwork) The Third Station of the Cross… You fall under the weight of the beam. And it’s not just those on the Via Dolorosa who see. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that […]

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Love stumbles…and stumbles…and stumbles

March 7, 2012

source It was a simple 48 hour fast. Nothing momentous…but a sweet time with Our Lord…and I’ve been sharing its little epiphanies for a couple of weeks now…and as I fast…I meditate…on the Stations of the Cross… and this Station…the third… Our Lord falls for the first time. The journaling of the fast began here […]

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Love is desperate…for God (the lenten fast pt 7)

March 6, 2012

source Nine hours into my 48 hour Lenten fast… and I’m losing motivation… and I’m coughing. I remember that I’m recovering from pneumonia. This is part seven on the fast, 6 is here, part 5 is here, and 4 is here, three here, two here, and it began here. I think of this story told […]

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Love considers the beam carried by the Carpenter

March 5, 2012

source On a hilltop in Banawa, Cebu Philippines… there is this sculpture… One of fourteen… The Stations of the Cross. And I ponder this today… just a little Lenten fast meditation… yielding strength through weakness… drawing me closer to Our Lord. This is part six on the fast. part 5 is here, and 4 is […]

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Love meditates on God

March 2, 2012

source Six hours into the my 48 hour fast… meditating on The Stations of the Cross. In a Catholic church they’re on the walls…you can’t miss them. But lots of Protestant Christians don’t even know what they are. We Protestants miss out on much of the fabric of faith when we ignore so much of […]

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