Comments on: MARCH 3 – WAITING PAIRED WITH PRACTICE http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/waiting-paired-with-practice/ Advent and Lenten devotions by Goshen College students, faculty and staff Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Meg Wightman http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/waiting-paired-with-practice/#comment-75 Meg Wightman Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:05:02 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=87#comment-75 Amy - this is a lovely reflection on both the season of Lent and the text. Though I can't claim to have shaped you, as your pastor in Harrisonburg, I want to say, "I'm proud of you", and to ask your permission to possibly use some of what you have said in this Sunday's sermon on that text. Let me know, Meg the church email is cmchurch@ntelos.net Amy – this is a lovely reflection on both the season of Lent and the text. Though I can’t claim to have shaped you, as your pastor in Harrisonburg, I want to say, “I’m proud of you”, and to ask your permission to possibly use some of what you have said in this Sunday’s sermon on that text. Let me know,

Meg
the church email is cmchurch@ntelos.net

]]> By: Joe http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/waiting-paired-with-practice/#comment-74 Joe Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:07:41 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=87#comment-74 I was touched by LENT being God's Action -- like the covenamt with A&S..... so trusting in God is MORE IMPORTANT than our Lenten practices; hopefully the practices can become the expression of our trust in the God who transforms us. I was touched by LENT being God’s Action –
like the covenamt with A&S…..
so trusting in God is MORE IMPORTANT than our Lenten practices;
hopefully the practices can become the expression of our trust in the God who transforms us.

]]> By: Frank Moore http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/waiting-paired-with-practice/#comment-73 Frank Moore Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:07:57 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=87#comment-73 Thank you, Amy. Your comments were very meaningful to me. Thank you, Amy. Your comments were very
meaningful to me.

]]> By: Mary Mapes http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/waiting-paired-with-practice/#comment-72 Mary Mapes Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:39:26 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=87#comment-72 Oh Amy, what a wonderful thought! For Lent this year, I decided to do something a bit different. "Giving up" things never went very well with me. So I'm trying to create something instead. Poetry is a great love of mine, so I decided to write a Lenten poem focused on each of the devotions provided here. But I'm finding that even that is hard. With classes, homework, friends who want to talk and all of my other obligations, it is hard to find the muse/mood/strength of will to write something. (Especially without sounding corny.) Its good to know that, even if I don't quite reach 40 poems, reflecting on the themes is enough to create a change. Oh Amy, what a wonderful thought! For Lent this year, I decided to do something a bit different. “Giving up” things never went very well with me. So I’m trying to create something instead. Poetry is a great love of mine, so I decided to write a Lenten poem focused on each of the devotions provided here.

But I’m finding that even that is hard. With classes, homework, friends who want to talk and all of my other obligations, it is hard to find the muse/mood/strength of will to write something. (Especially without sounding corny.) Its good to know that, even if I don’t quite reach 40 poems, reflecting on the themes is enough to create a change.

]]> By: Cathleen Hockman-Wert http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/waiting-paired-with-practice/#comment-71 Cathleen Hockman-Wert Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:18:15 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=87#comment-71 Hear, hear and huzzah, Amy! I was encouraged by your meditation -- you're touching on something profound with your comment about "living into Lent." Sometimes I think I risk falling into the trap of spiritual pride when even Lent becomes something to "succeed" at or "do well." What on earth would that mean? I take hope from your gentle reminder that it doesn't really matter how I well I do. You remind me that perhaps the main thing is to just do it anyway, whatever it is. And to trust that in God's hands it will be enough. Hear, hear and huzzah, Amy! I was encouraged by your meditation — you’re touching on something profound with your comment about “living into Lent.” Sometimes I think I risk falling into the trap of spiritual pride when even Lent becomes something to “succeed” at or “do well.” What on earth would that mean?

I take hope from your gentle reminder that it doesn’t really matter how I well I do. You remind me that perhaps the main thing is to just do it anyway, whatever it is. And to trust that in God’s hands it will be enough.

]]> By: Sheldon C. Good http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/waiting-paired-with-practice/#comment-70 Sheldon C. Good Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:36:47 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=87#comment-70 Amy, awesome job with your devotion this morning. What a challenge we have, to live through Lent what we should be doing every day. Your piece read pleasantly and reminded me that it's not as much what we give up but the act itself -- discipline is a discipline, no? -sheldon Amy, awesome job with your devotion this morning. What a challenge we have, to live through Lent what we should be doing every day. Your piece read pleasantly and reminded me that it’s not as much what we give up but the act itself — discipline is a discipline, no? -sheldon

]]> By: Tish Herries http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/waiting-paired-with-practice/#comment-69 Tish Herries Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:11:42 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=87#comment-69 This week I am preaching at United Mtehodist's Wesley House at the University of Montana. This meditation fits well with my theme, "From Rainbows to Resurrection." I agree that it doesn't matter how one chooses to keep a Holy Lent. What matters is the end of the story. Just as the Noah story is not so much about the ark, or rain, or flood, as it is about the rainbow; so the lenten story is not so much about what we do or do not "give up" or add for Lent, but is about the resurrection - Christ died that we may live and love. This week I am preaching at United Mtehodist’s Wesley House at the University of Montana. This meditation fits well with my theme, “From Rainbows to Resurrection.” I agree that it doesn’t matter how one chooses to keep a Holy Lent. What matters is the end of the story. Just as the Noah story is not so much about the ark, or rain, or flood, as it is about the rainbow; so the lenten story is not so much about what we do or do not “give up” or add for Lent, but is about the resurrection – Christ died that we may live and love.

]]> By: Emily Jantzi http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/waiting-paired-with-practice/#comment-68 Emily Jantzi Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:30:57 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=87#comment-68 Thank you for shedding a new light. Thank you for shedding a new light.

]]> By: diana graber http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/waiting-paired-with-practice/#comment-67 diana graber Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:56:26 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=87#comment-67 As a child, this verse made me happy and giggle. If God could make of Sarah and Abraham great nations of people, at their ripe old age, I might look forward to all kinds of amazing things in and for my life, too. Nothing would be impossible. And so it's been. As a child, this verse made me happy and giggle. If God could make of Sarah and Abraham great nations of people, at their ripe old age, I might look forward to all kinds of amazing things in and for my life, too. Nothing would be impossible. And so it’s been.

]]> By: Korey P. http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/waiting-paired-with-practice/#comment-66 Korey P. Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:07:19 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=87#comment-66 It's a strange thing how I can feel called, or even that a certain thing may be an ordained into my life, but when it does not happen or become real in my time I given up and think I have missed God again. This passage reminds me that I am not the only one who may laugh at what God shares with him. The thing I am looking forward to is seeking God because He is God and worthy of all praise and not because I think He chosen or ordained my life for certain things. It’s a strange thing how I can feel called, or even that a certain thing may be an ordained into my life, but when it does not happen or become real in my time I given up and think I have missed God again.

This passage reminds me that I am not the only one who may laugh at what God shares with him. The thing I am looking forward to is seeking God because He is God and worthy of all praise and not because I think He chosen or ordained my life for certain things.

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