by Warren Howell | Mar 31, 2021 | Reflections
Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. (John 13:1) NIGHTTIME DURING Holy Week becomes the dark before the dawn. The story of Jesus’ last week and final sacrifice chart a descent into the shadier corners of the human heart. On the...
by Warren Howell | Mar 20, 2021 | Prayers, Reflections
The sun is love. The lover, a speck circling the sun. A spring wind moves to dance any branch that isn’t dead. — Rumi, The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, tr. * * * WELCOME, SPRING. You are a reminder of order containing chaos. Structure allowing...
by Warren Howell | Mar 13, 2021 | Prayers, Reflections
These “cute” little viruses were drawn by me in 2020 using my iPhone’s Notes app. And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.” (Numbers 21:8) THE...
by Warren Howell | Feb 21, 2021 | Reflections, Worship Resources
Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long. — Psalm 25:4-5 WHEN JESUS wandered into the wilderness, he must have surely had on his lips the words...
by Warren Howell | Feb 12, 2021 | Prayers, Recordings, Reflections
High King of heaven, my victory won, may I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s Sun! Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, still be my vision, O Ruler of all. — “Be Thou My Vision” (Trad. Irish Hymn) A moment with Maureen — warrenhowell ·...
by Warren Howell | Feb 7, 2021 | Reflections, Worship Matters
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE those of us who are planners of worship are reminded of how much our care and attention to detail is predicated upon the mistaken presumption that all systems will be normal. But I think God gets bored with normal. In her essay An Expedition to...
