A prayer to the God covered up by things

Flannery O’Connor prayed, “Oh God please make my mind clear.  Please make it clean.  … Please help me to get down under things and find where You are.”  Because it is so easy to become a dumping ground and there are so many things that are piled on top of us.  Of course, it does not feel […]

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Year in Review: Top Reads of 2016

I don’t think that there are words to cover the ground of 2016, the depth of loss and grief, the seemingly endless reports of violence, a divisive political election and  loss of notable famous faces.  More than usual or at least in recent memory, there was a desire to be out with the old and […]

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One Resolution

From Christmas lists to New Year’s resolutions, we have numbered our hopes of making others and ourselves happy.  But, there is but one resolve for the Christian, the Great commandment.  Matthew records, “When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35 and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. […]

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God is with us but where?

Another year, another Advent season. God is with us and it is spectacular. Or, maybe it isn’t anymore. Perhaps, we are beginning to feel that God has come and gone due to a political season that has taken a toll on the American psyche. And then there is the fact that Jesus’ story could now […]

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The Work of Christmas

Mary has done the hard work of labor.  Don’t let the nativity scenes fool you.  There was blood, sweat and tears involved.  Joseph will bear witness.  She wouldn’t have wanted to hear our carols then and don’t ask, “Mary, did you know?” God is with us but before we pack up our holiday cheer, let me stop […]

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