Lewis had a beautiful view of merriment in the life of the human being, in light of my favored season of Christmas attendant upon us now… We must embrace merriment. Yes, we must avoid hollow frivolity, but also inordinate gravity. We must embrace the kind
This weekend a few friends and I are pulling out the hammered dulcimer (Dan), violin (Matt), mandolin (Dave), guitars and a bag of world percussion tricks to make music during the big Ten Thousand Villages sale in St. Stephen. 10K Villages is fair trade at
HOW CAN WE HELP THE SUFFERING OF OTHERS? Guiding Idea: You can’t heal everything; and some things are not ready to be healed yet. We can build bridges of kindness. We can empathize – imaginatively enter into the perception of another. Community can heal –
It’s a quiet moment on one more Sunday eve in my brief lifetime, and my heart is hushed before God. I feel the warmth of His presence near, and to dance with such flame is the danger I find my heart embracing again for the
For the community that is the Church, there are contrasting ways of viewing the past. The Church, as we rediscovers the past, and ideally re-invest our contemporary worship with its riches, can either look on the past with Dismissal, Nostalgia or Living Memory. Dismissive Memory
