Spilling and Splashing

Spilling and Splashing

“What now?” Into the disorder of the week he pours water in a  basin and wraps a towel around. I like to imagine he got the idea from Mary Magdalene. It was her gift to anoint his feet, her tears pouring love, her hair a towel of tender care. Great love....
Tuesday: Self-Giving Love

Tuesday: Self-Giving Love

It happened in the Temple the part that was more like a marketplace than a church, a widow, poor and of any imaginable age pays her temple tax with two small coins, a mite, but all she had. And Jesus says something like: “The truth is, this woman has put in more...
Riding on this Day

Riding on this Day

Provocative, he is. Perhaps not a warrior on a horse; Yet even a donkey rider in a Passover crowd is bound to attract attention. And he did. They reach high snapping leafy branches from the trees. They bend low throwing cloaks on the path before him. Hosanna! Voices...
Not Just Back Then

Not Just Back Then

The Gospel of Thomas, a manuscript discovered in 1945, gives us new understanding of Jesus from the Wisdom tradition. It offers these words for the spiritual journey. You hear echoes of these words in Matthew and Luke. The Thomas saying goes further. If you are...