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Am I an Orphan?

It is that season again.  We prepare.  We wait.  We anticipate.  On this first Sunday of Advent 2023, Jesus tells us, “Be watchful! Be...

Worrying to Dust

If I am honest, I relate the most to the final servant in today’s Gospel. When I receive something good or special, I worry over it: What...

Wait and Seek

Today's Readings We are so close to Advent we can practically smell it. Our readings today make that very clear. Even though we are still...

Finding Peace

The leaves are falling and the evening darkness creeps ever earlier as the end of the liturgical year draws closer. In just a few more...

Diversity in the Ordinary

Today's Readings Here we are amid the fall, closing in on the cusp of the great Advent season with many of us perhaps enrolled in...

Inviting God into Our Anxieties

Today's Readings Today’s passage from Paul’s Letter to the Philippians is a source of comfort for many people that I know. However, for...

Not only...but also

It was my eighth-grade graduation, and I was standing alone in front of an audience. My small school had a tradition where each student...

Abundance, Not Scarcity

Today's Readings When reading today’s Gospel, I was sincerely challenged on a response to the parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. All...

Be Forgiven and Forgive

Today's Readings One of the phrases I have unabashedly preached as a parent is: There’s nothing we can’t work through, as long as you’re...

Be a Lifelong Learner

Today's Readings One of the greatest gifts of being a lover of books and good words, is the constant invitation to learn and grow. Books...

An Ordinary Sunday

Today's Readings So here we are at the seemingly benign Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time. So many major holidays of the church have...

Throw Me a Bone

Today's Readings I am learning to dig deeply into the places that hurt The Canaanite woman knows she is not of Jesus’ people and yet she...

Taking a Leap to See Jesus

Today's Readings Today’s gospel sets the scene of the disciples at sea braving a harsh night. Imagine huge waves crashing into your boat...

Taking Time on the Mountaintop

Today's Readings Today’s gospel, the Transfiguration, transports me back in time to the hollers and hills of West Virginia…to Nazareth...

Rightly Ordered

Today's Readings I’ve been having very vivid dreams lately. Almost every night, I’ve been dreaming about people from throughout my life...

Imperfect Attempts

Today's Readings "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole...

In Collaboration with Creation

Today's Readings The seed that falls in the fertile field, Under joy and showers, good fruit it will yield. The Word goes forth from the...

The Gentle Mastery of Christ

Today's Readings Gentleness. Isn’t it true that we all long to be treated gently? Isn’t gentleness what we’re searching for when we rush...

When Singing of God’s Kindness is Hard

Today's Readings A few years ago I would have rolled my eyes at a Psalm like today’s. Wading through deep bouts of chronic depression and...

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