Month: December 2012

Merry Christmas! May Immanauel God-with-us born within this world today; Bring you peace. Pr E   The peace of morning’s stillness The peace of new beginnings The peace of heaven’s kiss To welcome us to this day To root us in this day To free us for this day That we may grow with the…

Holy Center of this most holy season, Jesus, child and ruler, all our stars point to your birth; all our wanderings come home to you; all our griefs and delights find a place in the stable where you choose to transform poverty and pain and loneliness and rejection. Your light shines in our lives; your…

Christ has identified himself with the human family, especially the poor and the forgotten. In loving them we love him in them. And they, in turn, encounter him in us in the love we give them. And in this, the bonds of charity are formed, building up one Christ unto the eternal glory of the…

First Coming God did not wait till the world was ready, Till…nations were at peace. God came when the Heavens were unsteady, and prisoners cried out for release.   God did not wait for the perfect time. God came when the need was deep and great. God dined with sinners in all their grime, Turned…

God speaks to us in (God’s) own special sign language – a baby. Not much. A small December child. A baby is birth, beginnings, potential without guarantee. A baby is helpless but not hopeless. A baby is someone to watch. A baby is the future appearing now. Are there baby-signs from God signaling hope to…