The End of the World …er … Year
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The special Birth that we, as Christians, celebrate each year is once again behind us. But our opportunities to change the world are still ahead of us.
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Getting the Message
… the providence of God whose purpose is to bring all things in a reconciling fellowship motivated by the everlasting love
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the Nativity says to me that “God so Trusts the world” that God put the future of the Christ in our hands
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Remember that we are part of an eternal relationship that is without beginning or end.
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May we “abound in love for one another and for all.
Continue readingMilestones and Mayans
Meaning is written in our hearts and in our minds, not in sacred text, or science,or stone, even Mayan stone.
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The Nativity isn’t really about God’s action in “becoming” a baby. What, after all, does any baby do simply by being born? It’s our reaction to that birth that’s the measure of how effective it is.
Continue readingLove – Advent 2011
I sometimes wonder if we get caught up in the commercialism of Christmas to the extent that we do simply because we’ve come to believe that there’s very little we can do to bring about either “peace on earth” or something as modest as peace in our own small corner of it.
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What about those of us who understand that the promise of Emmanuel is neither some supernatural intervention nor some otherworldly utopia, but a symbol of what this world could be, right here, right now?
Where do we find the Joy in a world that is so much less than it could be? The symbolism of Emmanuel is neither some supernatural intervention nor some otherworldly utopia, but a promise of what this world could be, right here, right now.
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“And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day.” It didn’t happen because the Grinch agreed to adhere to any particular doctrine, or because he was threatened by some Zeus-god hurling thunderbolts. He wasn’t converted. He was transformed.
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