Processions! Pageants! Picnics! Roasted fowl! Bird-shaped pastries! Historically, European Christians celebrated Jesus’ ascension into heaven with symbols of flight and ascent. Ascensiontide, the ten-day season beginning today, leads to Pentecost.…

Wherever we go, however slowly, whatever our trials, may we keep going forward for the love of God.

Stuck neck-deep in muck of my own making, God’s answer to my prayers may be Let me alone, but I’m too wrapped up in my own wrath to hear it.