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ash wednesday

Posted on February 25, 2009 | Filed Under church, spirituality

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day in another season of Lent. This banner will hang in our sanctuary tonight as begin our Lent together with an evensong service, Marty Haugen’s Holden Evening Prayer, and it will remained displayed throughout the season.

I very much like the artistry of the banner: the twisting, sharp-edged, thorny strands winding around and overlapping the cross; the cross itself placed starkly and simply in the foreground; and the path, the path receding into the distance at the upper right corner of the banner.

It …

irresistible

Posted on February 19, 2009 | Filed Under personal life

Who could resist this face?

I couldn’t. He shared my snack!

living with less

Posted on February 8, 2009 | Filed Under general

The Iowa State University Extension is offering a workshop in our area entitled “Living with Less,” giving folks advice on coping with the current economic downturn.

I think we needed workshops about ten years ago on “Living with More!” Perhaps if we had, if we had better learned how to use the good times to benefit our communities at large instead of “everybody for him/herself” … we might not be in the situation we are now.

enough

Posted on February 6, 2009 | Filed Under simplicity

From inward/outward, a quote from G. K. Chesterton:

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.