#goodfriday

I realized the other day how very few pictures I have of both Hazel and me . . . I have roughly 4 badrillion photos of Hazel, but only about 6 of the two of us, and even fewer with Daddy in them. Like most moms, I assume, I’m always more eager to get pictures of Hazel (because, let’s be honest, showers and make-up are things of the past #momstrong), looking like the radiant Beastie she is, than I am of capturing MY image, when I feel purely beast. Due to multiple chronic illness issues, two-thirds of my hair fell out after Hazel was born, followed by a fierce case of adult acne. Add to that a hefty portion of sleep deprivation, and, well, no… I’m not aching to have my image documented. But a wise woman once told me – thank you, Sister Alyce – that I should be sure to get behind the lens as often as I can, because I will want these pictures, one day, despite how stinky and gray and covered in pimples I might be in them. She’s right of course, damn her.

And besides, if anything, my appearance is a more pure reflection of the me beneath the me; of how Hard I’m Showing Up for my child. It won’t always be this way. I won’t always be here, in this fragile, volatile space where love and desperation mingle and intertwine, two cords of the same rope with which I swing to new heights and occasionally want to hang myself …

So here’s to present over perfect.

Here’s to sacrifice and surrender and to inhabiting EVERY SINGLE MOMENT. Messy and painful and exquisite.

Because they are ours.

Because only we can invite and detain and extract them.

Here’s to bringing our nothing and our everything, to being unabashedly broken and relentlessly loved.

I can’t think of a better day for Love to win than that of Good Friday.

Happy Easter, beloveds.
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Such a lovely and sunny Good Friday! ☀️
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Flashback Friday - instax mini pics of @peggyporschenofficial Chelsea
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#peggyporschen #goodfriday #pink #flowers #spring #bloom #cupcakes #easter #happyeaster #cakeshop #london #londoncafe #peggyporschenchelsea #instax #instaxmini #polaroid #photographs #floralarch #blossom #prettyinpink #springinlondon #springdecor #easterdecor #visitlondon #chelsea #sw1 #travel #windowdisplay #doorway #flashbackfriday (at Peggy Porschen Cakes)
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Plhegmy friend. #stickers #stickerslaps #slaps #clowns #drawings #neon #neonsharpies #rainbow #phlegm #cough #illustration #goodfriday

Music of the church. A collection of psalm, hymn, and chant tunes, adapted to the worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
3d quarto ed.
New York, Published by Samuel F. Bradford Philadelphia, Printed by Peter C. Smith, 1830 [c1828]
Dxxi, [3], 232 p. 23 x 27 cm.
Compiled by J. M. Wainwright.
For chorus (SATB) and organ.

Music for Passion Week and Good Friday

This 19th century Episcopal hymnal contains common tunes and a variety of texts that can be used with each tune. The index of texts is organized by Subject and also by Occasion. There are handful of texts available for Passion Week and Good Friday, including Hymn 65 which carries the subject “Awfulness of the Savior’s Death”.

As for the actually hymnbook, it’s been rebound in this - to use a phrase borrowed from a colleague in @uispeccoll- “marvelous marble”.

Now I’m off to find some rousing Easter day literature to share on Sunday!

“It is finished.”
#goodfriday #holyweek
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This is the name of my new black metal band. #garrisonontour #asheville #goodfriday (at Asheville, North Carolina)

#Repost @gods_touch_healing_ministry
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On Good Friday, the reading for Lauds comes from the Book of Lamentations. The poetry of sorrow is a response to the sufferings and destruction of Jerusalem. This reading is chanted by our cantors as the sisters and guests reflect on our sorrow in Christ’s Passion and Death on the Cross.

For your reflection, we’ve shared part of the reading paired with sights from around the Monastery on the Good Friday.  

Santo Entierro #GoodFriday #BiyernesSanto #HolyWeek #Lent2016 (at Lucena City)

What a day to bask in the #sun.

#dog #doggo #dogsofinstagram #lurcher #newcastle #visitnewcastle #butnotmygarden #throckley #instadog #goodfriday #spring #springhassprung (at Throckley)
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Pool day with the kids on this beautiful Friday after school! #stayathomeauntylife #goodfriday #poolday #faimalo #family #peckenpaugh

Today marks the anniversary of the greatest love story of all. When Christ died for me. I was never worth your love and you took my place. I love you Jesus. It is finished. #love #jesuschrist #goodfriday #crossequalslove

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
John 11:25
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#sharegoodness #redemption #resurrection #death #Atonement #Jesus #Christ #Easter #GoodFriday
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For, behold, the Lord your Redeemer suffered death in the flesh; wherefore he suffered the pain of all men, that all men might repent and come unto him.
Doctrine & Covenants 18:11
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#sharegoodness #repentance #suffering #Atonement #Lord #Redeemer #Jesus #Christ #Easter #GoodFriday
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It matters not how deeply ruined our lives may seem.
There is no life so shattered that it cannot be restored.
– Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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#sharegoodness #LDSconf #Atonement #Savior #Easter #GoodFriday #Uchtdorf #LDS #Mormon
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