Monthly Archives: December 2023

I am so grateful to Sue Ellen Hall who rememembered that I wrote this six years ago. Those six years have given me more age to appreciate the funny parts and so very many tears for loved ones…what did I … Continue reading →

And for all of you – clergy and choir,keyboard artists and cardboard-creche artists,readers of the familiar texts|by-not-quite-enough-candlelight,Christian educators and pageant planners,ushers and greeters and administrators, arrangers of poinsettias,and you who are crying at a nameon the list of bloom-and-memory,or deliver … Continue reading →

What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it –John 1:3-5 In so many ways we, and our whole world, … Continue reading →

I’m glad I have grandchildren in Colorado(maybe not the Facetimeopening Christmas presents part), but I love to visit the Rocky Mountains,the Carousel of Happiness,ride the train, learn about coal mines. I enjoy weather that sends me out,in shorts one dayand … Continue reading →

A Holy Night is ev’ry night we’re given,and every birth is the presence of God.Long days the world by greed and hate is driven.and churches’ preaching the thinnest facade.But brightly hope turns whispers to rejoicing,and kindness claims that peace need … Continue reading →

Oil for a Day …which lasts for eightis what we all long for. Somehowthe enough of me – like courage of rebels in the hills,or courage in the face of chemo,or loss,or a person with heavy fists,or depression that comesand … Continue reading →