https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/02/25-random-notes-on-ash-wednesday/ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:22:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/02/25-random-notes-on-ash-wednesday/comment-page-1/#comment-1612 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:22:39 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=528#comment-1612 PS
By the way, you give me the courage to admit that often when I’m lonely I fall asleep holding a small brass crucifix, about the size of my hand. There’s a comfort that I guess I find in it as I drift off to sleep thinking about Jesus, although I won’t expose in this forum the thoughts I have about him! ;o)
-BK

]]> https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/02/25-random-notes-on-ash-wednesday/comment-page-1/#comment-1611 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:55:08 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=528#comment-1611 Nathan,
The more I read your writing, the more intrigued I become. I can more than identify with several of the points on your list and some I give you real credit for admitting publically in this type of forum. I would love to actually meet and talk with you someday.
Peace, bro!
Brian

]]> https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/02/25-random-notes-on-ash-wednesday/comment-page-1/#comment-1609 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:22:18 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=528#comment-1609 o well, I’ve heard plenty of homilies that deflated my expectations: a mortification perhaps… and yet if God became man in history then he has to do with everything – even baseball spring training ??

]]> https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/02/25-random-notes-on-ash-wednesday/comment-page-1/#comment-1604 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:38:21 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=528#comment-1604 About my comment: some people spell it niche…………Q

]]> https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/02/25-random-notes-on-ash-wednesday/comment-page-1/#comment-1603 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:05:06 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=528#comment-1603 I look forward to seeing your list. It was, after all, in San Cristobal that I got into making lists for The Row Boat.

]]> https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/02/25-random-notes-on-ash-wednesday/comment-page-1/#comment-1602 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:01:15 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=528#comment-1602 As always, I am inspired by your writing, especially no. 2. Most people would not tell that. It inspires me to write all the things I hide that people would not like. For example, my admiration of nature over most all man made thing. A butterfly, its migratory patterns and its nitch in nature, over all the skycrapers, aircraft carriers in the world. I will make the list and send it to you……..Quentin

]]> https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/02/25-random-notes-on-ash-wednesday/comment-page-1/#comment-1599 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:09:38 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=528#comment-1599 Priest didn’t mention that either. Bless his heart, he compared Lent to baseball spring training.

]]> https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/02/25-random-notes-on-ash-wednesday/comment-page-1/#comment-1597 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:05:06 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=528#comment-1597 And solidarity with sinners – to receive the cross is to confess responsibility for the evil in the world. Jesus came to announce the nearness of God (the medium is the message here) to sinful men and women, to bear the consequences of this evil. To wear the cross is shameful but also proclaims the victory of Jesus over sin, death, loneliness.

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