Lisa Rutledge
@sittingsacred.bsky.social
Love-your-neighbor Christian —#peace, #love, #mercy, #truth, and #justice — proofreader, editor, sweet-and-clean-romance writer, rom-com fan, blogger, and poet. I'm online at https://lisarutledgeauthor.com/ and https://sittingwiththesacred.com/.
A Prayer Inspired by Luke 5:33-39
Today's post is a prayer inspired by today's gospel passage.
Today's post is a prayer inspired by today's gospel passage.
A Prayer Inspired by Luke 5:33-39
Today's post is a prayer inspired by today's gospel passage.
sittingwiththesacred.com
September 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
A Prayer Inspired by Luke 5:33-39
Today's post is a prayer inspired by today's gospel passage.
Today's post is a prayer inspired by today's gospel passage.
Embracing the Unexpected: Insights from Luke 4:16-21
Here's what Luke 4:16-21 said to me today:
Here's what Luke 4:16-21 said to me today:
Embracing the Unexpected: Insights from Luke 4:16-21
Here's what Luke 4:16-21 said to me today:
sittingwiththesacred.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Embracing the Unexpected: Insights from Luke 4:16-21
Here's what Luke 4:16-21 said to me today:
Here's what Luke 4:16-21 said to me today:
Reposted by Lisa Rutledge
"'Please enjoy a 70-minute early exit tomorrow. That way you’ll be rested for my 70th birthday Monday!' Long wrote to IRS staff..."
Trump expertly handling US taxes:
"It is unclear who will next lead the IRS, which has had 6 different people in charge this year..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...
Trump expertly handling US taxes:
"It is unclear who will next lead the IRS, which has had 6 different people in charge this year..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...
Trump Is Replacing Billy Long as I.R.S. Commissioner
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"'Please enjoy a 70-minute early exit tomorrow. That way you’ll be rested for my 70th birthday Monday!' Long wrote to IRS staff..."
Trump expertly handling US taxes:
"It is unclear who will next lead the IRS, which has had 6 different people in charge this year..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...
Trump expertly handling US taxes:
"It is unclear who will next lead the IRS, which has had 6 different people in charge this year..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...
Encouragement to Keep Going, Even When the Way Forward Is Unclear
If you still struggle to have faith and hope, if you're tempted to give up, if it's ever taken you a lot of study and a lot of mistakes before you learned or accepted something, you're in the company of the apostles in the Gospel…
If you still struggle to have faith and hope, if you're tempted to give up, if it's ever taken you a lot of study and a lot of mistakes before you learned or accepted something, you're in the company of the apostles in the Gospel…
Encouragement to Keep Going, Even When the Way Forward Is Unclear
If you still struggle to have faith and hope, if you're tempted to give up, if it's ever taken you a lot of study and a lot of mistakes before you learned or accepted something, you're in the company of the apostles in the Gospel passage for May 4. And you haven't seen Jesus the way they do in the passages that come before this one.
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May 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Encouragement to Keep Going, Even When the Way Forward Is Unclear
If you still struggle to have faith and hope, if you're tempted to give up, if it's ever taken you a lot of study and a lot of mistakes before you learned or accepted something, you're in the company of the apostles in the Gospel…
If you still struggle to have faith and hope, if you're tempted to give up, if it's ever taken you a lot of study and a lot of mistakes before you learned or accepted something, you're in the company of the apostles in the Gospel…
What Christ’s Wounds Say After the Resurrection
We read more than once in this week's Gospel that the disciples find Jesus in their midst, even though they're behind locked doors.
We read more than once in this week's Gospel that the disciples find Jesus in their midst, even though they're behind locked doors.
What Christ’s Wounds Say After the Resurrection
We read more than once in this week's Gospel that the disciples find Jesus in their midst, even though they're behind locked doors.
sittingwiththesacred.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
What Christ’s Wounds Say After the Resurrection
We read more than once in this week's Gospel that the disciples find Jesus in their midst, even though they're behind locked doors.
We read more than once in this week's Gospel that the disciples find Jesus in their midst, even though they're behind locked doors.
Don’t Leave! We’re Just Getting to the Good Part!
If you're wrestling with doubt and/or confusion this Easter, you're in the company of more than one disciple.
If you're wrestling with doubt and/or confusion this Easter, you're in the company of more than one disciple.
Don’t Leave! We’re Just Getting to the Good Part!
If you're wrestling with doubt and/or confusion this Easter, you're in the company of more than one disciple.
sittingwiththesacred.com
April 20, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Don’t Leave! We’re Just Getting to the Good Part!
If you're wrestling with doubt and/or confusion this Easter, you're in the company of more than one disciple.
If you're wrestling with doubt and/or confusion this Easter, you're in the company of more than one disciple.
Who Are These People and What Are They Doing?
This week's gospel recalls the past but signals the start of something new. To say that Christ's Passion, the ultimate passage from the old to the new, will be painful is the epitome of an understatement. And yet it's a passage that Christ and his…
This week's gospel recalls the past but signals the start of something new. To say that Christ's Passion, the ultimate passage from the old to the new, will be painful is the epitome of an understatement. And yet it's a passage that Christ and his…
Who Are These People and What Are They Doing?
This week's gospel recalls the past but signals the start of something new. To say that Christ's Passion, the ultimate passage from the old to the new, will be painful is the epitome of an understatement. And yet it's a passage that Christ and his disciples cannot avoid. It's a passage filled with contrasts and contradictions, and it leads us to who Christ and his disciples are.
sittingwiththesacred.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Who Are These People and What Are They Doing?
This week's gospel recalls the past but signals the start of something new. To say that Christ's Passion, the ultimate passage from the old to the new, will be painful is the epitome of an understatement. And yet it's a passage that Christ and his…
This week's gospel recalls the past but signals the start of something new. To say that Christ's Passion, the ultimate passage from the old to the new, will be painful is the epitome of an understatement. And yet it's a passage that Christ and his…
This video gives voice to my perspective better than I feel like I can right now: www.facebook.com/share/v/19Dd...
Redirecting...
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April 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This video gives voice to my perspective better than I feel like I can right now: www.facebook.com/share/v/19Dd...
I love my library—but the White House is trying to dismantle the agency in charge of federal library funding. It provides jobseeker resources, technology for people with disabilities, and more.
Call Congress! Urge them to save federal funding #ForOurLibraries 👉 bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
Call Congress! Urge them to save federal funding #ForOurLibraries 👉 bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
April 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I love my library—but the White House is trying to dismantle the agency in charge of federal library funding. It provides jobseeker resources, technology for people with disabilities, and more.
Call Congress! Urge them to save federal funding #ForOurLibraries 👉 bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
Call Congress! Urge them to save federal funding #ForOurLibraries 👉 bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
Reposted by Lisa Rutledge
More from ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl: "By cutting off federal support from libraries, the Trump administration is cutting off opportunity for the American people – economically, culturally, professionally and socially."
Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Take action: ala.org/showup
Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Take action: ala.org/showup
March 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
More from ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl: "By cutting off federal support from libraries, the Trump administration is cutting off opportunity for the American people – economically, culturally, professionally and socially."
Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Take action: ala.org/showup
Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Take action: ala.org/showup
God’s Trust and Care Helps Us Reflect It
We, Abraham, Paul, and Jesus were given gifts to appreciate and work to do in the times and places we inhabit. In the course of our appreciation and our work, will get glimpses what lies beyond any time and place.
We, Abraham, Paul, and Jesus were given gifts to appreciate and work to do in the times and places we inhabit. In the course of our appreciation and our work, will get glimpses what lies beyond any time and place.
God’s Trust and Care Helps Us Reflect It
We, Abraham, Paul, and Jesus were given gifts to appreciate and work to do in the times and places we inhabit. In the course of our appreciation and our work, will get glimpses what lies beyond any time and place.
sittingwiththesacred.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
God’s Trust and Care Helps Us Reflect It
We, Abraham, Paul, and Jesus were given gifts to appreciate and work to do in the times and places we inhabit. In the course of our appreciation and our work, will get glimpses what lies beyond any time and place.
We, Abraham, Paul, and Jesus were given gifts to appreciate and work to do in the times and places we inhabit. In the course of our appreciation and our work, will get glimpses what lies beyond any time and place.
Reposted by Lisa Rutledge
This week, Edward Martin, the interim US attorney for Washington, DC, sent a letter to the dean of Georgetown Law School threatening to investigate the school if it did not scrub its policies and curriculum of diversity and inclusion initiatives. Here is the Dean's response....
March 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This week, Edward Martin, the interim US attorney for Washington, DC, sent a letter to the dean of Georgetown Law School threatening to investigate the school if it did not scrub its policies and curriculum of diversity and inclusion initiatives. Here is the Dean's response....
Lenten Journaling Insights: Turning Toward God
It surprised me that God as provider and liberator stood out to me this week.
It surprised me that God as provider and liberator stood out to me this week.
Lenten Journaling Insights: Turning Toward God
It surprised me that God as provider and liberator stood out to me this week.
sittingwiththesacred.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Lenten Journaling Insights: Turning Toward God
It surprised me that God as provider and liberator stood out to me this week.
It surprised me that God as provider and liberator stood out to me this week.
Reposted by Lisa Rutledge
A prayer for Pope Francis during his grave illness
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
A prayer for Pope Francis during his grave illness
Loving God: As Francis, our beloved pope, suffers from grave illnesses, we come before you in prayer.
www.americamagazine.org
February 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A prayer for Pope Francis during his grave illness
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
Reposted by Lisa Rutledge
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
Reposted by Lisa Rutledge
So... can we all start calling Zelenskyy the leader of the free world?
February 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
So... can we all start calling Zelenskyy the leader of the free world?
Reposted by Lisa Rutledge
The church's role in the nation's capital is not to steer policy but to give witness to those affected by national initiatives, Cardinal Robert McElroy said Feb. 27 in his final news conference as San Diego archbishop.
Cardinal McElroy, incoming Washington archbishop, has no plans to meet Trump
The church's role in the nation's capital is not to steer policy but to give witness to those affected by national initiatives, Cardinal Robert McElroy said Feb. 27 in his final news conference as San...
www.ncronline.org
February 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The church's role in the nation's capital is not to steer policy but to give witness to those affected by national initiatives, Cardinal Robert McElroy said Feb. 27 in his final news conference as San Diego archbishop.
Reposted by Lisa Rutledge
Fact checking dangerous liar RFK Jr.
Between 2020-2023 a total of 50-100 cases of measles.
There have been 124 cases since Feb 26.
The vaccine is effective and safe. The child who died & 18 hospitalized cases are unvaccinated
Between 2020-2023 a total of 50-100 cases of measles.
There have been 124 cases since Feb 26.
The vaccine is effective and safe. The child who died & 18 hospitalized cases are unvaccinated
February 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Fact checking dangerous liar RFK Jr.
Between 2020-2023 a total of 50-100 cases of measles.
There have been 124 cases since Feb 26.
The vaccine is effective and safe. The child who died & 18 hospitalized cases are unvaccinated
Between 2020-2023 a total of 50-100 cases of measles.
There have been 124 cases since Feb 26.
The vaccine is effective and safe. The child who died & 18 hospitalized cases are unvaccinated
Reposted by Lisa Rutledge
Dear friends: 'm happy to share with you a new painting of Bishop Mariann Budde, by my friend the Catholic priest and artist Fr. William Hart McNichols as well as his reflection on this new image. www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
February 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Dear friends: 'm happy to share with you a new painting of Bishop Mariann Budde, by my friend the Catholic priest and artist Fr. William Hart McNichols as well as his reflection on this new image. www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
Nourishing the Soul: Tending the Spiritual Orchard
The effects of a person's words and actions reveal a person's true nature.
The effects of a person's words and actions reveal a person's true nature.
Nourishing the Soul: Tending the Spiritual Orchard
The effects of a person's words and actions reveal a person's true nature.
sittingwiththesacred.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Nourishing the Soul: Tending the Spiritual Orchard
The effects of a person's words and actions reveal a person's true nature.
The effects of a person's words and actions reveal a person's true nature.
Reposted by Lisa Rutledge
A gay Catholic (theologian) on finding hope in seemingly hopeless times. outreach.faith/2025/02/a-ga...
A gay Catholic on finding hope in seemingly hopeless times
Contemplating small acts of kindness, and making an effort to notice beauty, goodness and compassion, can help in moments of despair.
outreach.faith
February 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A gay Catholic (theologian) on finding hope in seemingly hopeless times. outreach.faith/2025/02/a-ga...