Monthly Archives: March 2011

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Busy, Busy Lent

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Hurry sickness is a malady that is infecting many of us this Lenten Season. Perhaps you had good intentions like I did to spend meaningful moments with God this Lent but the busyness is already sucking the life out of some of us. This Lenten Season, I”m reading Juliet Benner’s beautiful book, Contemplative Vision and […]

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My God Chair

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I have a chair in my living room which we call, The God Chair. This is my perspective when I’m sitting in it. I’m staring at Rembrand’s “The Return of the Prodigal” which you can only see the bottom of in this photo. To my right, which you also cannot see is a full, front […]

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Waiting and Listening in Lent

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This is Johanne Vermeer’s painting of Jesus in the house of Mary and Martha. It’s one of the “visio divina” (sacred visual “seeing” God) art pieces that Juliet Benner devotes an entire chapter to in her wonderful and highly recommended book, “Contemplative Vision.” I’m using this book for my own Lenten journey this year on […]