Mercy

What do we do with Jesus?

Writing Practice, TheologyAndrea LingleMarch 30, 2021Lent, Writing Practice

Writing Practice for Lent Week 5

Writing PracticeAndrea LingleMarch 23, 2021Writing Practice, Lent

Waiting

To walk in the forest is to encounter the passage of centuries. A cathedral of time marked off in rings of alternating slow and fast growth.

Writing Practice, TheologyAndrea LingleMarch 23, 2021Lent, Writing Practice

Trust

She is smack dab in the middle of losing her baby teeth. One of her front teeth is growing back in, but the other is a cheerful gap.

Writing Practice, TheologyAndrea LingleMarch 16, 2021Lent, Writing Practice

Quietness

All snowflakes start from a particle of dust. As they fall through the wet womb of the cloud, they grow feathers or spikes or wings: each according to its journey.

Andrea LingleMarch 9, 2021Lent, Writing Practice

Writing Practice for Lent Week 3

Andrea LingleMarch 9, 2021Writing Practice, Lent

Rest

His feet dragged through the sand. There was no reason to walk down into the valley. It hadn’t rained since he had last been there, and his sheep would find nothing but starving locusts.

Writing PracticeAndrea LingleMarch 2, 2021Lent, Writing Practice

Returning

It should be simple to return home. Honestly, it should be simple to do a lot of things that aren’t simple.

Writing PracticeAndrea LingleFebruary 23, 2021Lent, Reflection, Writing Practice

Ashes

Things are not always what they seem. Just consider ash and time. The end of a thing. The true unmoved mover. Remnants. Immutability.

Andrea LingleFebruary 16, 2021Lent, An Abundance of Ashes, Writing PracticeComment

Lenten Plans

For those of you who are liturgically minded, you will know that tomorrow starts the season of Lent. Lent is my second favorite liturgical season (behind ordinary time).