I’m one who savors the season of Advent and Christmas. I love the quiet holiness that can accompany this season. I delight in the many hymns of Christmas. This morning, when I rolled out of bed, I was humming the tune to O Come, O Come Emmanuel. “O Come, Thou...
What happens when two unhurried people thoughtfully consider the ways of transformation? A book worth pondering comes forth. A book about soul transformation This, however, isn’t simply a book about the topic of transformation. It isn’t eight easy steps to becoming a...
The First Sunday in Advent The Collect. Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the...
“I sing a song of the saints of God, patient and brave and true, who toiled and fought and lived and died for the Lord they loved and knew…” When you hear the word “saint,” what comes to mind? For me, quite often the concept of a saint is that of someone...
Ash Wednesday: humbling reminder of who I am in relation to the great I AM. noticing what is lent to me by the One who made me. giving up what is too important to me to let in what is most important for me. embracing a new practice to erase an old rut....
