Archive for January, 2009

January 25, 2009

Jonah 3:1-5, 10
1 Cor. 7:29-31
Mark 1:12-20
I recently heard a friend tell a story about a morning she spent cleaning fish that had been given to her family as a gift. She connected her experience to the gospel reading on Sunday January 25th by saying, “it would have taken little more than a head nod to [...]

January 11, 2009 Baptism

Isaiah: 55:1-11
Last Sunday I finished my all night call, which begins at 4:30PM the previous day and ends the next morning at 8:00AM, I was hungry. I planned to go to 9:30 liturgy before going home to sleep and I knew it would be quite a while before I really ate a meal again. So [...]

January 4, 2009 Epiphany

 
On Sunday January 4th we celebrate Epiphany. Yearly I wonder what it was like for the three kings to 1)follow a star to find Jesus and 2)to make this extraordinary trip based on gut feeling! As someone who has followed gut feelings all of my life I am encouraged and feel exonerated from being challenged [...]