Endings…Beginnings

As I sit here, the end of 2005 is about 8 hours away. Tonight, I will not be up and watching the year end and welcoming in the New Year. Tomorrow is a Sunday and it will be the first Sunday of the new year, in about 13or 14 years,  that I have actually been in [...]

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You Can’t Please Everyone

Matthew 11:16-19 Jesus spoke to the crowds, “But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they [...]

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Holding Baby Jesus

One of the best parts about being a parent is the opportunities you get to simply sit in a big comfortable chair with a sleeping infant in your arms. I know that when Daivd was born, Debbie had to work on Saturdays. Every Saturday, I would get a big comfy pillow and place it on [...]

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Commentary on the times….

As this holiday season has been revving up to full swing I have noticed, heard, and read some things that I think we need to think about.
First of all, you can’t even get through Halloween until you begin to see the holiday aisles going up in Wal-Mart. There’s just something about the juxtaposition of Santa [...]

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The Desert is Blooming

Isaiah 35:1-4The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the LORD, the majesty of [...]

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True Freedom

I used the online prayer space found at Sacred Space. It is run by the Jesuits in Ireland. It provides a series of guided thoughts and mediations. One section of the prayer site is called Freedom. This morning, something clicked. In this section there is often suggestions that we need to let God shape us. [...]

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In the Process of Becoming

Luke 1, 57-66: Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbours and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah [...]

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