Cold Shower–Hallelujah, Alleluia!

Cold Shower–Hallelujah, Alleluia!

I stepped into our cozy, dorm-room shower this morning anticipating its usual, wonderful solar-hot water. By the time I was head-to-toe wet, it soaked into my brain: “This water is COLD!” Then I started my familiar rant: “Nothing is predictable here....
Easter Sunday Prayers for the World

Easter Sunday Prayers for the World

It was on Easter Sunday and all in the morning Our Savior arose and our Heavenly King The sun and the moon they did both rise with Him And sweet Jesus we’ll call him by name. (This is the last verse of an English carol that starts with “It was on Christmas...
Yes to Easter!

Yes to Easter!

Yes to the new creation! Yes to Christ is Risen! Yes to all that I do not understand about this new beginning! Alleluia! This year I am neither exhausted nor “sooo ready for Lent and Easter to be over.” What is different from past Lents was not bingeing on...