As I continue to reflect on my thoughts from long ago, I am bringing my mind back to earth. Creation is just too big to think about now that we have so much information about our universe and all that it contains. While our earth is a tiny speck in our galaxy, I realize thatContinue reading “All Creation Waits: Sabbath”
Tag Archives: Advent
Violence is Not the Way
“From John the Baptist’s time until now the kingdom of God has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.” Matthew 11: 12 Once we believe that Christ is the revelation of God, we must interpret all of scripture through the lens of what Christ has revealed about God. Christ Jesus revealed that GodContinue reading “Violence is Not the Way”
It is in Our Hands
Come, O Come Emmanuel, and in your coming may you find us hard at work. Here is another story I heard once and I can’t give credit because I don’t remember who told it. Once upon a time a grandfather took his grandson out to fly a kite and it was a foggy, cloudy day.Continue reading “It is in Our Hands”
Waiting
The smells that go with making bread made the juices flow, and it was such a long time to wait until we could eat it. We are all waiting for the vaccine that is going to save us and let us return to our lives. It is difficult to wait while the numbers of thoseContinue reading “Waiting”
Lighting the Candle of Hope
“My heart shall sing of the day you bring Let the fires of your justice burn. Wipe away all tears, for the dawn draws near and the world is about to turn. Canticle of the Turning Today is the first Sunday of Advent and our Advent wreaths take center stage. There is no wrong wayContinue reading “Lighting the Candle of Hope”
Waiting
“Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down!” Isaiah 63: 19 It is not easy to be patient and yet that is what we must do as we muddle through this transition from one president to the next, as we wait for senate election results in Georgia, as we wait for vaccines toContinue reading “Waiting”
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