by Ali Kennedy | Feb 25, 2024 | Fuel for Grief, Fuel for Maturing Faith, Fuel Up Fridays, Lent/Easter
“Oh no, broken mommy, broken!” My son recently discovered that when you throw something on the floor and it breaks, it needs fixing. It is not difficult to identify a broken toy or a broken toilet, but when it comes to our spiritual lives, we often fail to...
by Ali Kennedy | Apr 18, 2022 | Fuel for Maturing Faith, Lent/Easter
Millions of people around the world celebrated the resurrection of Christ over the weekend. For many, the joyful celebration ended after the sermon and life will continue on as normal this week. But as my childhood pastor always said, we are ‘Easter people.’...
by Ali Kennedy | Apr 11, 2022 | Fuel for Grief, Lent/Easter
Up until several years ago, we did not have a practice of marking “Holy Week” — the events that led up to the Easter celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Growing up, we just went straight to the good part — Easter! That is not a bad thing. But looking...
by Ali Kennedy | Apr 8, 2021 | Fuel for Grief, Fuel for Parenting, Lent/Easter
25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here...
by Ali Kennedy | Apr 19, 2019 | Fuel for Grief, Fuel for Maturing Faith, Lent/Easter
“Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple,...
by Ali Kennedy | Mar 28, 2011 | Fuel for Grief, Lent/Easter
I was about to exit the sanctuary after the Easter event was over when a woman came running up to me in a frenzy, “Don’t leave without your gift!” Then she handed it to me and scurried off to catch another woman who had apparently forgotten hers too. Since the mood...
