Birthing Love
I love Christmas Eve… as a child of the North, I love the warmth amidst the often-bitter cold. I love the soft yellow light of candles and Christmas trees illuminated after a 4 pm sunset. I love the stars that shine even amidst the light pollution of the city—as if...
We are made to be God-bearers
Luke 1 Listen here: There was visit from an angel and a moment of ecstatic, mystical prayer. With joy, she had consented to God’s action and presence to bring about new life and a new world through her body and soul. But then reality’s weight bore down on her. She was...
The Peace that Love Offers
Matthew 3:1-12 Listen here: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel and ransom captive Israel that mourns in lonely exile here…. Until the Child of God appear. Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel, shall come to you, O Israel. Sometimes when there is a prescribed season of the church (like...
Advent 1: Awake to Love
Scripture: Matthew 24:36-44 Today is the first Sunday of Advent. It’s the Sunday we light the candle of hope on the Advent wreath, settle into the season’s darkness and wait the next month in holy anticipation, in preparation and prayer for the gift of Divine Love to...