From Heaven Above
Someone has said that you know the holiday season has completely distracted you when you try to enter your computer pass code into your microwave oven. It is the season of distractedness – when our attentions become three-dimensional, satisfying the demands of sons ad daughters, mothers and fathers, bosses. And then there are the bills. So we come here to focus. To hear the word and be reminded, once again, what it is all about. We come to adore the babe in the manger an
Kindness, Honesty, Hard Work
I have a cartoon hanging on my study door which depicts a pastor sitting on a bench in a jail cell looking sullen. Beside him on the bench sits a seasoned convict with big bushy eyebrows and cauliflower ears. In the first panel the convict says to the pastor, “What are you in for?” In the second panel the pastor replies, “I had more than three points in my sermon.” In the final panel the convict moves as far away from the pastor on the bench as he can. There is this unw
Driving Instructions
Then there is the one about the teenage son who backed his father’s car right through the garage door. When his father asked him what happened he said, “I don’t know. I just put it in “R” for “rev” and hit the gas!” When we’re driving we need to know the difference between “Reverse” and “Forward,” or “drive.” As we begin our season of Advent we need, also, to keep our Reverse and Forward in good balance. Advent is a time in which we look to the rear – look back 2,000 ye