Beloved [1Word5Voices]

“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today, to get through this thing called…life.” So begins one of my favorite Prince songs, Let’s Go Crazy. But just getting through life is such an uninspired goal. Life isn’t to be endured, it is to be celebrated! I’m particularly aware of celebrating life with my beloved as today my […]

Beloved (Lent #36)

Be-loved. Be-love-ed. However you say it, “beloved” means dearly loved. (check out these ways the word has been used…The Gospel of John’s Beloved Disciple; Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Beloved Community) To love dearly, to be dearly loved. I had a moment this morning as I was hovering over a bowl of cereal, when my mind […]