So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples.Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see … Continue reading Easter Sunday: Grace for the Fearful
"Take a guard,” Pilate answered, “Go make the tomb as secure as you know how.” So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.Matt 27:65-66 (NIV) This is the day after the death. Jesus has been placed in the tomb, and Pilate and the Pharisees … Continue reading Easter Saturday: Grace for the Entombed
About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice “Eloi, Eloi lama sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me.Matthew 27:46 (NIV) These words pierce me every time I read them. They are words wrung from the deep places of the soul. Words that come from the depths of … Continue reading Good Friday: Grace for the Forsaken
hope is an emberthat glows faintly in the hearth its feeble flickersigns of its strugglebefore it subsidesinto cold ash lean close,breathe on itgently,carefully bring itto life again Jodie McCarthy
I’ve been thinking a lot about breath of late. Of how vital it is and how much we take it for granted. Maybe it is because I have started a weekly Tai Chi class that focuses so much on the exhale and inhale. Maybe it is because my constant phrase to my daughters when they … Continue reading What I am learning about breathing
This is the post I have been putting off writing. This is the post I have found every possible reason to delay. This is the post that makes laundry look appealing and Facebook scrolling imperative. This is the post where I tell you my word for the year. My word for last year was “connection”, … Continue reading On my word for the year and why it’s taken me so long to tell you