by Jeanni Shepherd | Dec 1, 2023 | Awakening
In the week before Jesus died, the cat-and-mouse games in which the Pharisees tried to trap him filtered every conversation in and around the temple. The Pharisees had no love of truth, only of being right. Jesus was everything that was truth. So, when he stumped the...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 27, 2023 | Easter Journey
I wonder how long it took the disciples to realize that Jesus really wasn’t going to overthrow the Romans or establish an earthly rule. After his death, though the loss was mostly of the man they had come to love, I imagine it also encompassed dreams they hardly...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 18, 2023 | Easter Journey
Today I was reading up on Pentecost. I had forgotten it’s 50 days after Easter. Jesus ascended to Heaven 40 days after the resurrection, then it was 10 more days before the Holy Spirit came and the church was born, 3,000 converts strong. Somehow, I picture all this...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 12, 2023 | Easter Journey
You know how you can be talking to someone and think everything is good; then they say something and inwardly something inside you kind of pings? It might feel like the reverberation of a gong that’s been struck, or sometimes it feels like your equilibrium suddenly...
by Jeanni Shepherd | Apr 4, 2023 | Easter Journey
As I write, Easter is one week away – five Days by the time you read this. Five days in which we will hear Jesus’ last words to his friends, witness Mary’s poignant movement toward his suffering, and walk with him to Jerusalem for a Passover the likes of which...
