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Staff report Central Illinois Community Blood Center Central Illinois Community Blood Center is hosting two blood drives in the area. The first is in Lincoln from noon to 5 p.m.Wednesday, May 5 at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1140 N. State St., inside the Fellowship Hall. To donate, contact the Blood Center at (800) 747-5401 or visit www.bloodcenter.org and use code 61219 to locate the drive. Potential donors must be at least 17 years of age (16 with parental permission form available through www.bloodcenter.org) and weigh more than 110 pounds. A photo I.D. is required to donate. Donors who last gave blood on or before 3/10/21 are eligible to give at this drive. ....
I was told once that during Lent, you don’t sing songs with the word hallelujah in them. I had never heard of that tradition, though my church in Atlanta had been observing Lent for a while. But I liked it. It made sense. Lent is a season of intense self-reflection, repentance, fasting, low-key suffering, and lament. Songs about victory could run the risk of sounding impatient, even lazy and unwilling. The hallelujahs will have to wait, as we have some things to sort out first. Years ago, our worship band started opening each Sunday of Lent with a blues song: Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Blind Willie McTell, Bessie Jones, Blind Willie Johnson, Eric Clapton, and down to The Black Crowes the real stuff. We called it “Blues for Lent.” These were songs of pain and frustration, songs with very vivid pressure points on the hurt that exists in the world. ....