Advent, Days 14-15 Zephaniah 3:17 For you I do not thinkthe night was silent. You heardthe squalling of that baby, nakedform held in his coarse bewilderedhands, the Almighty fitting impossiblyinto the space of his fingers. YourSon. Your heart must have already beenbreaking for the brokenness that would nowbe his home. And as he came so … Continue reading Song
Advent 2025, Day 13 Luke 5:27-32 Who knows how he became a tax collector? Maybe he craved the financial or physical security such a position offered. Maybe he felt forced into this work somehow by the Roman oppressors. Maybe he was fleeing an even worse situation. Or maybe he Just didn’t care what anyone else … Continue reading Despised
Advent 2025, Day 12 Luke 5:17-26 This is what the world looks like when you’re paralyzed: you lie in a pit, always looking up. Always watching as the world circles around you, in and out of your sight, people doing all the things you are denied. You may share in life only when others stop … Continue reading Friends
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Advent 2025, Day 9 Matthew 2:1-12 Across the world, across kingdoms, across epochs of silence, they wait and watch. Men of power. Kingmakers. Wisdom-wielders. Keepers of dark mystery. They study prophecy and believe it, and they still look for the coming promise, words planted in their kingdom centuries ago by worshippers of the one true God. … Continue reading Pilgrimage
Let us receive you. Let us like the earthhold the seed of youdeep in our dark, let it breakopen, unfold, emerge to reachfor light Let us drink you like the rain-drenchbreaking drought, let us holdout hands to catchthe torrent of you,let us plunge intoyour flood Let us know the pressof galaxies, the singing joythat comes for us … Continue reading Immanuel
Luke 2:8-21 I can almost see God grinning. When you look at it from heaven’s perspective, this story he is writing is great fun. So far, we have an infertile old couple, a teenage virgin and her penniless betrothed from a tiny nowhere village, and a couple of impossible pregnancies. Now the son of God … Continue reading Lowly
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View from the Valley 