Every Broken Thing: Recent Episodes
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The opening lines of Lent are pulled from Ecclesiastes: “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Within the pages of this ancient and often confusing book, we hear those words that silently thrum under the noise of our everyday lives: what is the point of all this?
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Request for Presence: Psalm 68:1-18
Daily Reading: Ecclesiastes 7:1-29, John 11, 1 Thessalonians 4:13
Request for Presence: Psalm 59
Daily Reading: Ecclesiastes 5:8-20, Matthew 6:33, Luke 12:13-21, 1 Timothy 6:10
Request for Presence: Psalm 47, 48
Daily Reading: Ecclesiastes 4:13-16, Matthew 22:15-22
Request for Presence: Psalm 37:1-18
Daily Reading: Ecclesiastes 4:4-6, Mark 7:18-23, James 3:13-18
Request for Presence: Psalm 22
Daily Reading: Ecclesiastes 3:9-15, John 16:33
David Foster Wallace: This is water
Request for Presence: Psalm 8, 11
Daily Reading: Ecclesiastes 2:12-26, 1 Corinthians 10:31
Request for Presence: Psalm 9
Daily Reading: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11, Luke 9:23-25, Philippians 3:4-11
Request for Presence: Psalm 148
Daily Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:8-11, Matthew 9:17, 2 Corinthians 5:17
Request for Presence: Psalm 146
We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate that future as too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we that we dream of those times which are no more, and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists, for the present is generally painful to us. We conceal it from our sight because it troubles us; and if it be delightful to us, we regret to see it pass away. We try to sustain it by the future and think of rearranging matters which are not in our power, for a time which we have no certainty of reaching.
Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future. We scarcely ever think of the present; and if we think of it, it is only to take light from it to arrange the future. The present is never our end. So we never live, but we hope to live; and, as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable we should never be so.
— Blaise Pascal, Pascal’s Pensees
Request for Presence: Psalm 65
Daily Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:4-7, Matthew 8:23-27, Matthew 14:22-34, John 2:1-11
Check out the Lent Primer in your download folder for more info on choosing your fast and feast, and prepping for the first day of Lent tomorrow.
Some additional resources:
Nice little PDF about *lectio divina*
Excellent article by lectio divina pro, Ruth Haley Barton
A great video from James Martin, S.J. on lectio divina
Books
The Anglican Way: A Guidebook, by Fr. Thomas McKenzie
Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail, by Robert E. Webber
Liturgy of the Ordinary, by Tish Harrison Warren
The Eternal Current, by Aaron Niequist
Sacred Questions, by Kellye Fabian
Basically anything by Fleming Rutledge but specifically The Undoing of Death, The Seven Last Words from the Cross, and The Crucifixion
Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter
A Way Other Than Our Own, by Walter Brueggemann
Holy Solitude, by Heidi Haverkamp
Every Moment Holy, by Douglas McKelvey
Podcasts
Don’t Mom Alone - The Heavy Lightness of Lent (with me!)
Jesus Over Everything - Walking Through the Questions with Jesus (with me!)
The Liturgists - Lent
Tsh Oxenreider’s Simple Show Dive into the Liturgical Calendar - Part I, Part II, and Part III
Jonathan Martin’s Son of a Preacher Man - Liturgy and the Holy Spirit
Church of the Redeemer’s RedeemerCast - Your Calendar Forms Your Soul
Art
If you’re a visual person, here’s a Pinterest board of Lent-adjacent images to help you meditate.
Music
My Spotify playlist, lovingly curated for the Lent season.
