The longest days are coming to close for this year. The leaning into darkness will begin to tilt in a different direction soon. The promise of light is on the horizon. But for a few more cycles, the earth’s angle impedes the light . . . the light is shining, but it’s...
How is your Advent season going? Have you been able to stop and take a breath from the service planning, party going, and present planning (not to mention shopping)? At the beginning of the season, I challenged us to spend time listening. To hear the minor key of the...
So many things in our world at the moment require lament. So many current circumstances conspire to crush our hearts and leave us wondering when our hope will arise. Lament: the passionate expression of grief or sorrow. Lament: not a failure of faith, but an act of...
As the light of winter descends, the days grow shorter and dusk comes sooner. Darkness comes early and stays late, and our vision is hampered by the lack of light. Our vision resists the darkness, and unless we are attentive to our other senses, we end up on one of...
Christmas is coming. You cannot avoid the sights and sounds of the season. And the white flakes of winter have already come to some of our homes! But the Christian Calendar reminds us of another reality: the close of Ordinary Time links Pentecost with the Reign of...
It was November 1963. In Texas, a great statesmen, a young vibrant idealist, and a harbinger of hope, was killed in a shocking act of violence. The world stood still as people tried to understand what had happened and how this single event would change . . ....
