Loving the Unloveable

I was just reading an article this morning about the wildlife we like to attract to our garden.  It talked about the fact that all of us love to see nice furry creatures like squirrels and winged creature like colourful birds and buuterflies out our windows.  We tend to ignore the destructiveness of some of [...]

What’s New At the Lenten Synchroblog

Its Friday and I feel as though the week has gotten away with me.  Lent is meant to be a time of reflection and retreat but this week has certainly not been like that.  Fortunately next week should be different as Tom and I are heading away for one of our 3 monthly retreats Wednesday [...]

More Reflections for Lent

Here are a few more reflections on week 3 of Lent
From Kathy Escobar on homelessness – not just physical but spiritual and emotional. Read here
Ryan decided to go in a different direction than this Lenten guide but I still thought that you would enjoy his reflections in this post Too Entertained
As we draw towards Easter [...]

Third Week of Lent

It is hard to believe but we are well into the third week of Lent.  
Here is a great post by JR Woodward with his reflections on the second week of Lent and the Brokenness of Hunger
This comment on my post on Have You Ever Been Homeless really caught my attention too
I am homeless.  I [...]

Hunger and Homelessness

The end of another week of Lenten reflections.  Some are still in the Hunger & $2 challenge like Kathy Escobar and her reflections on Hunger.  Others like Tom Grosh are reflecting on Lent in general in You Have A confession to Make.  Others, as is reflected on this comment by Pat Lasusky are focused on [...]

Have You Ever Been Homeless?

I have never been homeless, but still remember vividly a period in my life when I experienced some of the disorientation and destabilization that many homeless people know constantly.  Someone accidentally opened the sprinkler system in my cabin on the Mercy Ship M/V Anastasis and its entire contents were flooded in black sludge.  Most of [...]

Journey Into the Brokenness of Hunger

We are now moving into the third week of Lent and so my thoughts are turning to our week’s challenge from the MSA Lenten Guide to reflect on and get involved in the brokenness of homelessness.  
Homelessness is a huge and complex challenge throughout our world.  UN Habitat’s 2005 report indicates that over one billion [...]