Daily Bread

Posted by DJL on Apr 9, 2012 in Daily Bread | 0 comments

So here’s the deal: I started writing Lenten Devotions for two reasons. First, reading Lenten devotions, often around the supper table, was an important part of my faith formation growing up and I realize that fewer and fewer congregations are able to offer them to their folks. So I decided to write some and make them available via the web so that folks could read them at home or work or school or wherever. 2) I thought it would make a good Lenten discipline to read through and reflect on Mark’s story of the Passion. And it did.

What I didn’t expect was to enjoy it so much! So I’ve decided to continue writing daily devotions and, since it’s not Lent, rather than call them “Lenten Devotions” I’ll call them instead simply, “Daily Bread.” Because that’s what I hope they are – just a morsel of bread to sustain you on your daily faith journey. Something, also, to chew on, to get you thinking, to orient you to how your story and the biblical story often overlap, and to tease you into thinking about how God might be at work in your life.

These are not commentaries, though what I write is often influenced by commentaries. Instead, they are brief meditations, or reflections, on what the Word might mean to us today.

Since we’ve spent so much time in Mark 14 and 15 over Lent, I thought it would only make sense to read Mark’s account of the resurrection in chapter 16 during this week after Easter. Then I think I’ll go back to the beginning of Mark and comment on the first thirteen chapters so as to cover the whole book. I suspect I’ll move at a slightly quicker pace then during Lent – after all, I had to spread 2 chapters over 40 days of Lent! But there will still be times where it’s just a verse or two that grabs my attention.

So we’ll begin today with Mark 16:1-4 and keep on going. Please let your friends, family, and fellow parishioners know that these are available; you can read them every day on the site and you can easily subscribe and have them delivered to your mail box. Thanks so much. And blessed Easter!