Part of my ritual in tending to this blog is to change the “header” with each new liturgical season – so that the image atop the homepage of With Us Still…evokes (at least in my mind) the spirit of the season.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Ash Wednesday, Dead Sea Scrolls, Holy Land Pilgrimage, Lent, Lent 2020, Qumarn, Sea of Galilee, See-Shore

Today’s find: Awake, again.

Posted on August 6, 2019 by John Schroeder

On this, the Feast of the Transfiguration, thought I might re-post a reflection I wrote a bit earlier this year…when we were blessed to visit the very spot where Jesus dazzled…even as some key disciples dithered. Here’s what I wrote back in mid-Lent:

Perhaps Peter should have traveled by taxi up to the top of Mount Tabor. That experience certainly would have kept him from falling asleep.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Church of the Transfiguration, Holy Land Pilgrimage, Lent, Lent 2019, Transfiguration

Today’s find: Detour

Posted on April 7, 2019 by John Schroeder

My weekend hasn’t turned out exactly the way I planned.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 5th Sunday of Lent, Isaiah, Lent, Lent 2019, sheaves, Spring beauty

Today’s find: Beggars

Posted on March 31, 2019 by John Schroeder

I didn’t catch Dennis’ last name. And he didn’t even ask mine.

Even so, there Dennis was, on duty, at 7:40 AM…to open up and welcome me (plus about 35 other strangers) into the Fellowship Hall of the Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chester yesterday.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Beggars, Cookies For Kairos, Fourth Sunday of Lent, Kairos Cookies, Kairos Prison Ministry, Lent, Lent 2019

Today’s find: Pickled

Posted on March 24, 2019 by John Schroeder

As a rule, beets would not make my Top 10 list as I “choose my way through” a food buffet. But something about these beets seemed to be calling my name – perhaps because I’d been in-country less than 24 hours. “When in Galilee, do as the Galilleans,” I figured.

I had a lot to learn about local food, I discovered on Day 1 of our pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Starting with these “beets”… that turned out to be pickled figs.

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