Your Favorite Posts and a Thank You
Happy New Year, my friends. Recently, someone I love sat at my kitchen table while I fiddled with pots and pans. She asked me if I love to cook. I told her that despite evidence to the contrary (shelves of cookbooks, dozens of kitchen gadgets), I don't really enjoy cooking. I'm usually in a hurry to get it over with. But here is the...
Because Our Children Are Vulnerable
On the Friday after Christmas we piled our over-stimulated, over-sugared children into the car and drove. We were chasing peace and quiet down the backroads, and we found it. The three-year-old had fallen asleep and the big kids in the backseat had stopped pinching each other when we drove straight into a flock of children. Startled, I...
The Gifts of a Dying Year
Their minivan is stuffed with children and luggage, all the paraphernalia of a Christmas well celebrated. The late December sun is too weak to soften the wind’s bite so we rush inside to wave goodbye from the window. The kids and I wave frantically, and it is as if we are saying goodbye to good friends, to Christmas, to this entire year. In a...
Advent 2012 (Christmas Day)
Merry Christmas, my friends.
Advent 2012 (Christmas Eve)
He who testifies to these things says: "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen. - Revelation 22:20-21...
Advent 2012 (Fourth Sunday)
O sacred Lord of ancient Israel, who showed yourself to Moses in the burning bush, who gave him the holy law on Sinai mountain: Come, stretch out your mighty hand to set us free. - Kathleen Norris, God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas...