Blog Questions for the Week following April 26, 2009

Read Luke 24:46, 47. Reflect in silence on what it means to be forgiven. Is this important to you, that God completely forgives you? Does this become more important if you recognize that accepting God's forgiveness means that you agree to forgive others? What do you need to forgive? Consider that to forget, in Old English, can mean to set aside or to neglect (rather than losing a memory). Can you forgive others and set aside your desire to harbor anger and to seek vengeance? In other words, can you forgive and forget? What impact will this have on you and on the person who has sinned against you?

Blog question for the week following April 19, 2009

Read Isaiah 42:1-9. Reflect on this statement: "Humans tends to see their physical environment as an object separate from them to be exploited, with science being paradigmatic of this approach. The Christian calling is to recognize that all of creation, living and non-living, human and non-human, is the crucial community upon whose health we depend, and our primary approach to it must be loving nurture."

Blog Question for the Week following April 12, 2009

Read Mark 16:1-8. Read the text slowly and multiple times, until you can envision and feel the experience of the women.

Then go for a walk, and allow your feet to wander. Where are you going? Down familiar paths? Toward or away from something? In circles? If you saw and felt what the women at the tomb saw and felt, where would you go, to whom would you go, and what would you say? Why? What is it like to walk (or even run) by faith in response to a revelation of astoundingly good news?

Blog Question for the week following April 5, 2009

How have you grown during this season of Lent, i.e. what is the one lesson that you have learned worth holding on to?