Nov 4, 2013 | books, Christmas, Monday Muse
Let’s be honest: I already started my Christmas shopping, right around the time that Halloween costumes and Christmas wreaths were hanging on display only one aisle apart in the craft store. I’m guessing you’ve started too, or at least you have a...
Dec 25, 2012 | Christmas, peace, sermon
“Peace on earth!” sings the angel choir. “Peace on earth, and glory to God!” But there has not been peace, not on earth, not for a long time. Peace is as distant as the stars while war and fear are familiar landscape. We are so accustomed to...
Nov 9, 2012 | Advent, Christmas, poem, psalm
Already I’m eager for turkey and stockings, for pumpkin pie next to apple pie, for mulled cider and secretive shopping, for “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” and “Silent Night.” But first let me remember: no messenger or angel, no holiday...
Dec 29, 2011 | Christmas, love, poem
So Love has come,finally,fully,no longer a heavenly conceptor ontological mysterybut a Lifeof breath and fleshshowing that Love livedis possiblein the fullest –not nuanced or strategized,not compromised or politicized,but simply expressedin touchin breadin...
Dec 24, 2011 | Advent, Christmas, sermon
At last!Like a sigh,like a reconnection,like the end of a work week,like a moment of peace amidst a noisy household,like a purple crocus breaking through the chilly spring ground,like a child who has been waiting to open a present,like a pregnant woman finally...
Dec 25, 2010 | Christmas, images of God, sermon
And the Word became flesh and lived among us.All things came into being through the Word.And the Word was Being.And the Word became fleshand livedand toddledand laughedand criedand made friendsand learnedand traveledand ateand drankand sleptand gazed at the starsand...
