Tracy's Blog

An old Easter worship chorus has been running through my mind today: "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?" I think that the main point of Holy Week is to bring us imaginatively to the place and time of Christ's betrayal, suffering, death, and resurrection. The Church around the world sets apart this week to meditate on the narrative that has changed all of eternity. I hope that you are able to find some time to do that privately or with others. (By the way, if you have the opportunity to get to Highland Park Tues - Thurs evening between 6:30 - 8:30 pm, the "Journey with Jesus" prayer stations is worth experiencing.) The question still remains: "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?" Not just imaginatively or reflectively, but really? Yes, my old self was there and as a result, my salvation and sanctification are possible. But that's not the only question in the song that needs to be answered: "Were you there when He rose up from ...

Stop, Look, and Listen. This morning Abigail went for her first bike ride of the year. She loves biking and is quite good at it so I was confident about letting her go down the street ahead of me. But I still reminded her to slow down and look before she crosses any intersections. Later on, I was praying about something I felt I didn't know how to do and I sensed the Lord saying to me, "Look to My Word, Listen to My people and My Spirit" as a way to learn. The old safety phrase came to my mind - Stop, Look, & Listen - and I wondered how it could apply to our spiritual lives, especially during this Lenten season. Here's what I've come up with. It's rather metaphorical but I hope you get the idea. And if you have another perspective on this idea, please share with us. As we are travelling through the journey of our life with God, it's important to take time to stop, look, and listen when we are about to step into any sort of potentially dangerous zone fo...

I know it has been a LONG time since I've blogged. Sorry about that. Selling our house and buying one in Manitoba has occupied alot of my attention in February but I praise God that we have done both. I wanted to write earlier in Lent and to use this George MacDonald quote as a springboard for discussion. "But I do not know how to awake and arise!" I will tell you. Get up, and do something the Master tells you; so make yourself his disciple at once. Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have this day done one thing because he said, Do it, or once asbstained because he said, Do not do it. It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe in him, if you do not anything he tells you. If you can think of nothing he ever said as having had an atom of influence on your doing or not doing, you have too good ground to consider youself no disciple of his. But you can begin at once to be a disciple of the Living One - by obey...