by Lynne Marie | Feb 23, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Leviticus 19: 1-18 puts morality in context: “Be holy, for I, your God, am holy.” Christian morality is not “being good,” it is “being like.” And its goal is relationship: with God and others. Once the “grace of the Lord Jesus Christ” was revealed as “the favor of...
by Lynne Marie | Feb 21, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Genesis 2:7 to 3:7 is a story God told to answer one of the basic questions in life—like the questions little children ask their parents—“Why is there pain and suffering in the world?” The Genesis story is intended to make it clear that God didn’t will this. God does...
by Lynne Marie | Feb 21, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Isaiah 58: 9-14 presents two levels of response to God, and two levels of promise. The first level is to keep the Commandments on the “second tablet” of the “two tablets of the covenant,” which God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai. Custom assigns to the first tablet the...
by Lynne Marie | Feb 20, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Jesus was a disciple. As a boy, and later as a young man, he learned from Scripture and from the rabbis. When he got separated from his parents in Jerusalem, “they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening… asking...
by Lynne Marie | Feb 19, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Deuteronomy 30: 15-20 sets before us the basic “either-or” choice of human existence: life and wellbeing or death and misery. God’s gift; our choice. “Life or death, the blessing or the curse.” All we have to do is accept it. How do we know we have?. Three times, the...
by Lynne Marie | Feb 18, 2026 | Daily Reflections
Lent is a Time to Change Together The readings summon us as individuals to convert as a community. Note that Joel 2: 12-18 is addressed to the whole People of Israel as a community, not just to individuals who see themselves acting independently of others. No one...
