Advent – Season of Hope “You promised!” my children protest. How did “I’ll think about it” become a promise? How did the merest suggestion that I would consider their request take on the trappings of an oath? The answer eludes me. To them, a suggestion is as good as a promise. They believe in that […]
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Advent – Season of Hope “Soon,” a voice whispers in the night to the woman in prayer awaiting the birth of her first child. “How soon?” she responds. She hears no answer. “Soon,” the dying man hears. “But when?” he asks. No answer “Soon,” the voice says to troubled parents waiting for news […]
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” thus Charles Dickens began his novel, A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens, in his writing on Christmas, did more to save Christmas from a neglected, little observed celebration than any person of his time, leading to our current time of excess. This time […]
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