Archive for March 2020

March 12, 2020 DAILY READINGS Psalm 95 Exodus 16:1-8 Colossians 1:15-23 FIELD NOTES Today’s readings begin with Psalm 95, a call for us to worship joyfully the Rock of our Salvation, the Lord our Maker, the Giver of all good things. But it is also a reminder that dissension and conflict are a hindrance to…

March 11, 2020 DAILY READINGS Psalm 128 Ezekiel 36:22-32 John 7:53-8:11 FIELD NOTES Several times in the Gospels, Jesus is accused of not living up to the law of Moses. He is called to account for breaking the Sabbath by healing and by allowing his disciples to pick some grain when they were hungry. At…

March 10, 2020 DAILY READINGS Psalm 128 Isaiah 65:17-25 Romans 4:6-13 FIELD NOTES Isaiah 65 asks us to imagine God’s new creation, where infants thrive and grow up in God’s grace, where old folks have long, useful lives, enjoying the house they built or the garden they planted. There, even former enemies live together in…

March 9, 2020 DAILY READINGS This weekend’s reading: Job 19:13-25 Read the psalm aloud with expression and feeling. How does this psalm compare to the way you pray when you feel like the writer does? Psalm 139 (A psalm of David) You have searched me, Lord,    and you know me.You know when I sit and when I…

March 7, 2020 DAILY READINGS 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light. John 12:27-36 This weekend’s reading: Job 2:11-13 FIELD NOTES On the first day of creation God created light and then separated the light from the dark.  There’s an old Jewish Midrash saying that goes,…

March 6, 2020 DAILY READINGS Exodus 6: 1-13This weekend’s reading: Job 2:11-13 FIELD NOTES Our story today opens with God declaring: Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh!  And then in verses 2-8 God reminds Moses: that God has been there with his ancestors in the past, that God currently hears the…

March 5, 2020 DAILY READINGS Psalm 91This weekend’s reading:Job 2:11-13 FIELD NOTES One of the lessons I learn every Lent is the power of letting God be God. Of course, this requires me to surrender a lot. I must surrender my expectations of timing, my need to have things done in the way I want…

March 4, 2020 DAILY READINGS Joel 2:1-2, 12-17This weekend’s reading:Job 2:11-13 FIELD NOTES Last week was Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which is a penitential season.  Penance is a time of confession for the desire of reconciliation.  As they Israelites gather at Mount Sinai following 400 years of slavery in Egypt God reveals God’s…

March 2, 2020 DAILY READINGS Exodus 35:1-29This weekend’s reading:Job 2:11-13 FIELD NOTES After 400 years of slavery in Egypt, the Israelites are being led into freedom and a new kind of living.  God has provided food, guidance, and a leader (Moses) for the journey.  God has met them at the Mountain and provided a code…