For someone who really likes to celebrate, I don’t get too fired up about my birthday. It’s just another day. I relish the Facebook messages and phone calls and occasional gifts, but I was never one to expect the world to stop for me. Unless, that is, my birthday falls on the First Sunday ofContinue reading >>
We are asked throughout Advent to stay ready. For these days of Advent I invite you to reflect with me on the many forms of readiness. I used to be the kind of person about whom people said “so young, and yet so cynical!” and I would quietly fill with pride, because I believed thatContinue reading >>
We are asked throughout Advent to stay ready. For the next few weeks I invite you to reflect with me on the many forms of readiness. What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until heContinue reading >>
We are asked throughout Advent to stay ready. For the next few weeks I invite you to reflect with me on the many forms of readiness. Like many young people, I went through a phase when I thought saying “Rather than give a homeless person money, I buy them something to eat” made me soundContinue reading >>
We are asked throughout Advent to stay ready. For the next few weeks I invite you to reflect with me on the many forms of readiness. For behold, all generations will call me blessed. I didn’t date much before I met my fiancé. There were a sprinkling of dinner-and-a-movies, sometimes more than one with theContinue reading >>
