Past (hidden) AHJTL Posts

Betrayal As their eyes met, one felt shame, the other gratitude. One felt fear, the other love. One was horrified, the other relieved. United in the pain of seeing a loved one suffer.   Who wouldn’t give their life to save a most dear one?   When we imagine Jesus feeling abandoned and  crushed by […]

The Woman with the Alabaster Jar As a young girl, and ever since, ever since, she had a problem with men and they with her. Never enough –  good enough, smart enough, pretty enough. Never seen as a person, much less an equal. Never heard, much less listened to. Never thanked, much less appreciated. Never […]

Three Days Triduum can be the sacred time of the year when we pray for our Beloved Friend and Savior… that he will know that God is with him, that he will know that he is loved and cherished, that he be protected from doubt and fear, and that he will know most of all […]

Sanhedrin If I admit that you are Beloved, that you are loved and accepted, as you are, unconditionally, then I must accept this reality about myself as well, and damn it, that’s just too difficult, just too scary. I don’t know what that door will let in or let out, how I will then be […]

Blasphemer I spoke about God as if I really knew, as if I really knew the One, the One who is, who is unknowable. Oh sure, I can speak of my experiences of God, and those experiences tell me that God understands my limitations, that when I attempt to speak to God, God hears, that […]