Where is your Temple? Where do you find God? For the writer of Psalm 84, the answer to these questions is easy, the Temple in Jerusalem. This Temple is all of this and more. It was magnificent and beautiful, inspiring awe in all who entered its gates. Psalm 84 Psalm 84 starts by singing her […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability I am a sparrow, plain and brown, small. I can slip unnoticed into your life and out again. I am shy. Do not lunge at me for I will fly away. But if you patiently wait, I may come and sit on your lap. I will sing to you […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Sometimes the best part of family vacations is coming home. Back to familiar territory with familiar faces and friends. Back to the expected, the routine, to places and people you can count on. Children, outside of their normal structure and support system of friends can be outright terrorists with […]
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Advent – Season of Hope We’ve been told we can’t go home again, that nothing stays the same. Our home is not like the cottage in the snow globe–that glass ball that “snows” when we shake it. No matter how often we shake the globe, the charming home never changes. But our physical home changes. […]
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Advent – Season of Hope The old woman rocks in her rocker, engulfed in the folds of the afghan, keeping warm in the womb of this house she has called home for so many years. She has lived here for so many decades–lived and loved and raised her children. And now her children return to […]
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