2024.12.25

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone. For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty […]

2024.12.24

Toyin’ The snow is falling Christmas Eve predawn silence Reflection on Him Pondering incarnation Emmanuel: God with us! “God with us!” – an original TANKA by the HitchHiker while watching a white Christmas take shape. 2024.12.24

2024.12.20

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered… And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, […]

2924.12.19

TFS drops off some wisdom about the attitude you should have as you prepare to spend time with kith and kin during the holidays Or as Jesus says: “Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can […]

2024.12.17

Love-Mischief Season Early in November, “J” asked me (more like “voluntold”) to be Santa Claus for a library program close to Christmas. I hoping it was because I have white fascial hair rather than my physique. Regardless, I changed my shaving regime and let my goatee grow into a full beard. As my appearance grew […]

2024.12.13

And assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he (Herod) inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet: ‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers […]

2024.12.10

He is our PEACE Last week, at O’Dark-thirty, I read a short paragraph from Eugene Peterson about the word so profound. Peterson was reflecting on Ephesians 2:14. “For he himself is our peace…” Paul spoke of Jesus, who united the church by removing the ordinances in the law dividing the Jewish and Gentile Christians. In […]