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Legend claims at midnight Christmas Eve animals received the gift of speech, but I imagine it was the other way around that first starlight night. Animals didn’t gain but humans lost, for once, their words....
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Photo Source: Picture from: B. Monginoux / Landscape-Photo.net (cc by-nc-nd) O that you would tear open the heavens and come down . . . Isaiah 64:1 Some mornings the mountains disappear completely, a great wall of white cutting the distance between presence and...
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(Our truck isn’t nearly this old, but some days it feels like it . . . ) See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is...
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Half-awake, deep under a layer of blankets, I hear him cry out in his dark, cold room at the end of the hall. “Ya-Yuh? Ya-yuh!” he calls, pausing to wait for his brother’s reply. Answering silence is followed by thump, patter, then the squeak of his...
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Photo Credit (Each week in December I hope to write at least one post reflecting on the lectionary texts from the Sunday before. This week’s readings include Jeremiah 33:14-16 and Luke 21:25-36.) We flew along back roads surrounded by fields and forests on...
