If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. Mark 8:34 What does it look like to take up your cross this Lent? Most of us don’t have big, heavy, wooden beams lying.
My wife, Joanne, and I are birders, enjoying the challenge of finding, identifying and watching birds in their (and our) various habitats. Many are year-round domestic birds, such as cardinals or titmice, but a number are seasonal, such as the juncos that frequent our.
For Liza God works on many levels and in many ways and Lent is no exception. I truly believe that during the Lent season we can lose ourselves in contemplation. There are many lessons to learn and many perspectives to hear as we move.
I didn’t grow up Episcopalian, so the Book of Common Prayer was totally new to me when I joined St. John’s. I remember when I first received it and thinking it was great, but I didn’t really read it all that much. This year.