by Margaret | Mar 1, 2026 | Reflections
Introduction: Introduction This meditation was first posted in January 2024 to a small private group of Christians who were praying together for our democracy and for our elections. It describes a prayer which I had been praying for at least a decade prior to that...
by Margaret | Feb 19, 2026 | Reflections
What Was Lost and What We Freely Give Traditionally on Ash Wednesday, believers in many liturgical churches have ashes marked on their foreheads. Growing up in a secular household, I remember how alien this looked to me the first time I saw it. A Catholic coworker,...
by Margaret | Feb 17, 2026 | Reflections
Tomorrow the season of Lent begins. And I will be celebrating. I never used to celebrate Lent. I didn’t grow up in church. My mother, though a lifelong Episcopalian, was agnostic during much of my childhood, and my father considered himself an atheist — at least...
by Margaret | Jan 26, 2026 | Reflections
Saturday night, along with many others in my city here in Virginia, my husband and I lit candles outside our home in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis. As we stood in the falling snow and frigid cold praying for the courageous people in Minnesota, I couldn’t...
