No, I haven’t fallen off the planet…just been working. I have a video shoot coming up at Willow Creek in Chicago next week that I’ve been writing scripts for and that I’ll be directing actors on. It’s an exciting project in many ways, a bit of a new adventure for me and though the scripts [...]
Entries from April 2007
April 16, 2007
Still Easter
By now Easter consciousness is long gone for most people I know. Mine, too, unless I wrench it back into place. This morning’s stream of consciousness “what does Easter season mean?” sort of entry means to do just that. Hope. It starts with hope. But hope for what? For eternal life? Sure, but my kids [...]
April 13, 2007
Hard Rest
Confession time. I understand rest conceptually, but as a practical matter, it escapes me. Does that make me a workaholic? It’s not that I work all the time: it’s just that when it comes time to rest, I’m no good, as if I’ve wandered into a task I lack the basic skills for. There are [...]
April 12, 2007
Near Death Experience
No, I haven’t had one, but a good friend of mine used to work with a doctor that did a tremendous amount of research into NDE’s of children, and the books he wrote based on many interviews with these kids are fascinating. Dr. Mevin Morse’s web site outlines his work, and though it’s been years [...]
April 11, 2007
Three Days In…
It’s Wednesday, the first midweek of Easter season. Frankly, thoughts of Easter have long flown the coop from most U.S. Christians, nothing more than memories now of Easter egg hunts and cellophane covered baskets and perhaps a new dress and shoes. We lay our heads down last night without thinking much of Death’s new status [...]
April 9, 2007
Bright Monday
Lent is a season, Easter a day–or so I thought. But the fact that the church has traditionally celebrated Easter as a season is impressing itself on me, and this year, I’m paying attention all the way to Pentecost, fifty days from now. (Forty days will land us at Ascension Day, the day marking the [...]
April 8, 2007
Easter Sunday
It’s here. It’s still dark outside, but it’s here. This is the time I imagine it happening. The disciples still in bed, the women perhaps just now stirring in the dark, waking themselves, feeling again the weight of grief that greets each day after the loved one is gone. They gather up the spices, their [...]
April 7, 2007
Dark Saturday
That’s just what I call it. My allergies kicked in last night just before the Taize service at church so I was pretty miserable. Trying to concentrate on anything spiritual, I sat in my seat and let the organ and the simple repetitions wash over me. My nose settled down finally and it ended up [...]
April 6, 2007
Good Friday
It was an ordinary event. People being beaten at the hands of oppressors, occupying forces in a middle-eastern land. Sure it was bloody, but what wasn’t? Pilate must have hated the place, hated what it meant in his life, hated how it played havoc with his ambition. And now this, this Jesus person that the [...]
April 5, 2007
Thursday – The Last Supper
Tonight, I hope I remember to sit and think about John 13-17. Probably my favorite section of scripture, these four chapters seem to me to sum up Jesus’ life and work. Back when I was performing The Jesus Monologue, when I came to this part of the play, I was inevitiably moved by the dramatic [...]
