Pandemics force us all to change, whether we like it or not. Among the most drastic changes are restrictions on travel, gathering with others, and going about our business—literally our means of livelihood but also our range of activities outside our homes. Pandemics claim our attention, require us to do life differently than before, and …
Author Archives: David Kendall
19 April 2020
Loving Lord, All praise and honor and glory to you—Father, Son and Holy Spirit! Even to call upon your name is to enter the deepest of mysteries, You who are One yet three, three but One! As high as the heaven of heavens, higher still you are enthroned, Yet as low as any of us …
Extreme Alternatives or Doubling Down Discipleship
Imagine that you, a loved one, or a friend were stricken with the COVID-19 virus. Then, imagine a politician asserting that it would be the lesser of two evils to suspend the social practices now curbing the spread of COVID-19 and saving lives than to maintain such practices and further threaten the economy. That is: …
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For Easter Sunday
Loving Lord, You have risen with healing in your wings! You, our God, have once again spoken, this time by a Son … Father, forgive them … Father, into your hands … It has been accomplished! Then, on the third day, and the first day of the new creation, another Big Bang, as the second …
For Holy Saturday
Loving Lord, In the darkness of that brutal Friday, You, the righteous One, took upon Yourself the full weight of the world’s Sin, the ruinous brokenness and lethal Consequences of it all, for us all. You took it all upon Yourself, and to The end remained Yourself–calling for, Surrendering to, resting in Your Abba, Caring …