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Good Friday: Walking the Walk
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mpratt
I don’t think any of us enjoys the physical pain and other hurt that chronic illness brings. In fact, at times, we might absolutely detest it, wishing we were anyone other than the broken body that plagues us with constant grief. Yet, to me, wishing it is a superfluous point: We already are other than…
Chronic Pain: Good Friday and The Longest Walk
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mpratt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Equ0RIiulOA There is a gospel song that resonates through my spirit on Good Friday. Simply named, “Calvary,” (I’ve linked one version of it that I found on YouTube, sung by Jami Jackson at the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn) a traditional, African-American spiritual, is a very slow, almost plodding, and sorrow-filled testimony to how painful and…
Moments of “Holy” in Holy Week
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mpratt
Lent is almost over, and soon we will be raising our voices to celebrate Easter, the Resurrection of Our Lord, and a renewed sense of faith and optimism. In these last days of Lent, I find myself doubling up my efforts to keep this time as holy as possible; after all, we are in “Holy…
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