Archive for December, 2007

December 23, 2007

Is 9:1-6, 10
Ti 2:11-14
Lk 2:1-14
An Unlikely Manager Scene
I have to admit that if I take into consideration who I am with my sensitive nose, my dislike for the cold, my standoffishness for expected strangers asking me for things, I might not have found myself at the site of the birth of Christ. The great thing [...]

December 16, 2007

Is 35:1-6a, 10
Jas 5:7-10
Mt 11:2-11
Miracles Great and Small
The other day I sat with a man who was dying. I was told that he was dying and that he was afraid. You could tell by looking at him and listening to his breathing that he was working hard to hold his own. I was asked by [...]

December 9, 2007

Is 11:1-10
Rom 15:4-9
Mt 3:1-12
My Favorite Flashlights
This week I have been thinking about the concept of light and how this season of Advent invites us to open to the Christ light that we celebrate. It made me think about flashlights. I must admit it seems no matter what age I am I am always excited about [...]

December 2, 2007 Advent

Is 2:1-5
Rom 13:11-14
Mt 24:37-44
“Come, let us climb the LORD’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.”
I grew up in Northeast Iowa. It is not known for its towering mountain peaks. For some “outsiders” they don’t even give us [...]