Eight armored doors. That’s what stood between our incarcerated brothers and freedom…when we presented a Kairos Weekend to them at a supermax prison in 2012. Those eight doors, plus an ever-jangling assortment of handcuffs and leg-irons.
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Today’s find: Innermost Cell
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Tags: Innermost Cell, Kairos Prison Ministry, Supermax prison, Tamms, Tamms Supermax
Today’s find: All Tied Up
Here’s a lesson from my first-ever attempt at knotting a bow-tie:
It helps a LOT…
if you start with enough CRAVAT.
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Tags: abundant love, Bow Tie, God Is Love, John the Evangelist, Quixotic Quest, Sixth Sunday of Easter
Today’s find: Community
The first thing I noticed, as our Kairos Weekend began inside the prison last week, were the guys who didn’t show. Continue reading
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Tags: Community, Cookies For Kairos, Fourth Sunday of Easter, Kairos Prison Ministry, Menard 14, Observing Leader, Timekeeper
Today’s find: Hunger
Sure: I’ve seen the ‘multiplication’ miracle happen on more than one occasion, but it never gets old.
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Tags: Cookies For Kairos, Kairos Inside, Kairos Prison Ministry, Road to Emmaus, Third Sunday of Easter
Today’s find: O, Mercy!
The calendar says ‘spring,’ but you couldn’t prove it by the hue of the fairways as we opened the golf season this past week. The zoysia turf, still sporting a winter tint, made our league’s ‘home course’ resemble the Sahara more closely than Augusta during our first week of play.
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Tags: Didymus, Divine Mercy Sunday, Doubting Thomas, Golf League, In touch, Mercy, Thomas
Today’s find: A Sacred Space
The sanctuary of our church took on an intriguing look, at about 3:00 in the afternoon on Good Friday.
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Today’s find: Prayer, Answered
One thing I noticed that’s different about me on Good Friday this year, compared to last, is that my heart is filled with wonder regarding the conversion story of Andrew Klavan.
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Tags: Andrew Klavan, Conversion, Good Friday, Solemn Intercessions, The Great Good Thing, The Lord's Passion
Today’s find: Vinegar
Sometimes I wonder why I do the things I do.
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Tags: Apple Cider Vinegar, Bad Habits, Bitter Tonic, Holy Week, Holy Week 2018, Psalm 69, Spy Wednesday, Vinegar, Weight Loss
Today’s find: Struggle
Springtime seems to be struggling a bit. It’s not catching on, not quite yet, in our part of the country.
But if you look closely, you can find the barest hint of the spectacle to come.
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Tags: Holy Week, kenosis, Lent 2018, Palm Sunday, Passion Sunday, Spring blooms, Springtime, Struggle, Surrender
Today’s find: Son-burst
The switch to Daylight Savings Time has been a mixed blessing, at best.
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Tags: 5th Sunday of Lent, Daylight Savings Time, Glorify, Son-Burst, SonBurst, Spring foward
