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In the middle of all these Advent stories about naming remarkable babies (Jesus and John), here’s a poem that has had me thinking lately about the importance of naming:
How badly the world needs words.
Don’t be fooled
By how green it is,
How it seems to be thriving.
“Willow” rescues that tree
From its radiant perishing.
How much more so [...]
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
These are the words of the holy one, the true one,
who has the key of David,
who opens and no one will shut,
who shuts and no one opens:
Revelation 3:7
I’ve been to all sites of the 7 [...]
Dinner tonight is a good bellweather of how I’ve been eating lately…good intentions mixed with crap.
I made enchiladas from “scratch”:
corn tortillas (which I obviously didn’t make myself)
wrapped around:
locally grown squash that I roasted yesterday in a moment of inspired advanced preparation
pulled chicken BBQ of the big-grovery-store-bought kind, which I did not even read the ingredients [...]
A quick thought today:
Zora, through the miracle of Hulu, enjoyed her first ever viewing of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special.
I never noticed before: when Charlie Brown is about to give up on his Christmas tree, he hears Linus reciting the Luke 2 Christmas story again. And this causes him to give the tree another chance. [...]
I found out I was pregnant with Zora during Advent. It immediately changed how I felt about waiting. I’ve since seen churches that actually use an ultrasound photo as a symbol of advent waiting.
It’s a great image to wait with…for many of us, that time of waiting while pregnant was one of the most intense [...]
Erik and I are grammar nerds. (However, I would appreciate it if you didn’t take this opportunity to critique my grammar because I am not having a very good day.)
Which explains why we were reduced to giggles the other night for a good 10 minutes over the phrase “metaphorically speaking”.
It seems to us that there [...]
“O Lord GOD, cease, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”
6The LORD relented concerning this;
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord GOD.
Amos 7:5-6
Sometimes I feel this way about the church. Don’t get me wrong: I love the church…so much so that I’ve attached my career to it.
But I worry about it. Once, [...]
I got a nasty comment on the blog today. Regarding Advent 5:
Your careless disrespect for the Word of God is sad. The Bible is only “weird” to those who do not have the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit (I Cor. 2:12, 14). It is God’s love letter to His children. (That’s what you get for [...]
Luke 1:5-80
Stick with me and read through the story…it’s worth it. (But focus on Zechariah.)
It’s a story with layer after layer, question after question. But I’ll stick wiht one thread.
In the middle of all of these remarkable events, over and over, the SPirit comes upon people and they burst forth proclaiming and acclaiming what it [...]
In that house, Fridsma’s, the mem would call
into shadows from the little reed organ
crammed in the kitchen, “Children, come–
we will sing some psalms.” It would teach them,
she said, to be unafraid in the dark
before coming through to the cheer of the light
to see by, when it would come.
–from “Frisian Psalms, 1930s” by Rod Jellema, [...]