The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Psalm Passage – Praising the Divine . . . . with the best of intentions
It is fairly obvious I imagine that the “Preacher” and “Seeker” are different voices or personas...
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Carole Boshart
I am a ponderer by nature, and freely mix the spiritual and the pragmatic but always guided by the wisdom of the Spirit as sent by the Lord God and communicated through scripture. I am not sure how to describe my spiritual orientation. Part Anabaptist - that is where my roots are. But I have journeyed a long way from the church of my childhood. My faith life is a potpourri of most Christian denominations, with a little Judaism thrown in. My passion is to reach out to people where they are, wherever they are, and support them in their life and in this world, while readying them for the life and world to come.
The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Gospel Passage – Journeying out with best of intentions
“Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Epistle Passage – Continuing the journey and living our lives out with the best of intentions
“Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,...
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The Weeks & Sundays After Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Old Testament Passage – Starting the journey with the best of intentions
We have, beloved reader, entered another period of ordinary time. The stretch of time between...
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Trinity Sunday, Yr A, 2020: Psalm Passage – Naming the Divine Trinity: Preacher and Seeker talk about it
Preacher: “O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your...
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Trinity Sunday, Yr A, 2020: Gospel Passage – Blessed and Commissioned by the Divine Trinity
“Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When...
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Trinity Sunday, Yr A, 2020: Epistle Passage – Blessing in Three Parts
After the long passage yesterday, I thought a short passage would be much easier. But there such a...
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Trinity Sunday, Yr A, 2020: Old Testament Passage – Musing on Creation, the Triune Divinity, and where we are now
“In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and...
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Day of Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Epistle Passage – This was the DAY, and this is how it happened to them. The question remains . . . what will happen to us.
This week, beloved reader, the Acts passage is the Epistle passage. We do not often stop to...
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Day of Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Psalm Passages – Musing on the blessings and traces of the Spirit so far
“O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your...
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Day of Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Gospel Passages – Hints of the Coming of the Spirit
Normally on this day we would have the Epistle passage. But this week the Epistle passage, as the...
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Day of Pentecost, Yr A, 2020: Old Testament Passage – Back in the day when the Spirit was a rare Visitor
“So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD; and he gathered seventy elders of...
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Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth, Yr A, 2020: Gospel & Old Testament Passages, and a little of the Psalms – Women of the Bible speak to us
“In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she...
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Seventh Sunday of Easter, Yr A, 2020: Psalm Passage – Lifting up others while enduring with patience; Preacher and Seeker muse together
Seeker: “Let God rise up, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before...
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Seventh Sunday of Easter, Yr A, 2020: Gospel Passage – Enduring with patience and being lifted up
“After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has...
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Ascension of the Lord, Year A, 2020: Gospel, Epistle, and Psalm Passages – The Blessing of the Ascension (and all that followed it)
“Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with...
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