This Lenten season started off yesterday with Ash Wednesday, and for me with some very saddening news about a friend of mine. It was confirmed to me last night, as I was driving to work, that my good friend from Nickelsville, Aaron “Beau” Beaucage, had died earlier in February. Beau had left Nickelsville just [...]
I am joining in the reflection this Lenten season with Mustard Seed Associates and their Lenten synchroblog. You can join in reflecting as well by going and downloading their “A Journey into Wholeness: A Lenten Reflection Guide“
As i reflect this day, Ash Wednesday on my own brokenness and sin, i realize how it is always, [...]
“If one had taken what is necessary to cover one’s needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.”
- Saint Basil,
fourth century theologian and monastic
i have been spending a lot of time with my friends who live in a homeless tent community called Nickelsville. I know many of them, have heard their stories, and shared some of mine. In a most recent conversation I had with one friend, something he said stood out to me. It [...]
