By Rev. Mark Breese: “In the week after Easter there were celebrations that were joyful. Not surprising, of course. But there is also a Cosmic Joke involved.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Mark Breese: “The watermelons tempt us. They win us over—even though we know that they ought not to. Even after we have been forgiven, even after we have repented and done our penance, the Siren Song of the Watermelon from the Work House Field calls us– and we listen!”
Continue reading →By Rev. Mark Breese: “After the first Easter, the Day of Resurrection, Christians have never been without Jesus. He is eternally living and present with us. But there was the first Saturday where Jesus was most definitely not with us.”
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“It is Finished?”
“Jesus could have done a runner instead of letting himself get arrested. But he didn’t. And now all those choices were finished. All that remained was to take the last step in being fully human.”
Rev. Mark Breese:
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
“Lord, we know that you died so that we would always have your spirit, God’s Holy Spirit, within us. Please Lord, we beg you that you make your presence known to all those who are in isolation now.”
Rev. Mark Breese:
“’Woman, here is your son!” “Here, your mother!”
I had a car accident once. Totally my fault. I was distracted and frustrated about some kind of nonsense or other that I can’t even remember now. The long and the sort of it was I ran right into the back of someone’s car. SO my fault.
By Rev. Mark Breese: “Now, here we are today, in this moment, in the midst of worldwide struggle, and it is the last two days of Holy Week—and I, for one, and I am leaning into this moment. I think we all need to. Lean In!”
Continue reading →“Hope & The New Light ” – The walk through Holy Week is also a walk through another week of a global pandemic. But there are some hopeful signs, New Light breaking through both the Eeyore gloom of current events and the perennial struggle of contradictions that is Holy Week.
By Rev. Mark Breese: “The question is some variation of this: Is this COVID-19 pandemic one of the plagues that are supposed to be a sign of the end times? No! I hope that is clear.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Mark Breese: “I get it! There is A LOT going on and NONE of it is normal. And, it’s going to be like this for many days to come. And I guess that’s the thing—each new day is going to keep coming, and worrying about what tomorrow might bring won’t change that one little bit.”
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