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When Mary visited Elizabeth’s home in the Judean hills, it was a 70 mile trip on roads filled with residents and transients, bandits and soldiers. But this Jordan road also passed some towns famous in Israelite history: Shechem, where Abram and Sarai built an altar....Pastor’s Prayer for January 3, 2016
“Dear God, make calm the waves in this heart, make still that storm. Be calm, my soul, that God may rest in you. God’s peace wash over you. Dear God, grant us peace, peace that the whole world cannot wash away.” Soren Kierkegaard, A Book of Uncommon Prayer (2007)....Give Christmas Away
“Let me not wrap, stack, box, bag, tie, gag, bundle, seal, keep Christmas. Christmas kept is liable to mold. Let me give Christmas away, unwrapped by exuberant armfuls. Let me share, dance, live Christmas unpretentiously, merrily, responsibly with overflowing hands,...