Tag Archives: Christmas

Prayer in a time of baby formula shortage

Posted on May 13, 2022 by Maren

God, our Christmas storiestell about parentswho are terribly, terribly afraid,yet how they find safetyfor their holy child. And, so we learn all children are holyand pray in this timefor parents desperate with fearthat they cannot feed an infantwith the formula … Continue reading →

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Somethings to remember for Christmas, 2021

Posted on December 23, 2021 by Maren

Mary didn’t get to have her mother with her.Mary didn’t get to have her friends with her.Mary didn’t get to havethe familiar Nazareth midwife with her.Mary didn’t even have a bed. Joseph didn’t get any helpwith birthing a child.Joseph didn’t … Continue reading →

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Guest Post from Maria Mankin for Living Psalms

Posted on December 15, 2021 by Maren

This is one of Maria’s contributions to the Living Psalms, part of the UCC Worshipways offerings which bring into our current lives the weekly psalms. This is for Christmas and it certainly fills the heart this year. # Living Psalm … Continue reading →

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Christmas Eve at the Epsom Circle McDonald’s and Other Poems

Posted on November 16, 2020 by Maren

I am excited to announce my new seasonal book, Christmas Eve at the Epsom Circle McDonald’s and Other Poems. A few years ago I experienced a “bun and run” Christmas Eve at that New Hampshire establishment before rushing off to … Continue reading →

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Guest Post Christmas Greetings from Roofs for the Roofless

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Maren

Savrithri Devanesen was a contributor to Kathy Eddy and my 1995 book Gifts of Many Cultures. By that time, the work that she and her husband Chandran started in Chennai had already changed so many lives. Always she has sent … Continue reading →

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Jesus is a bottle baby

Posted on December 25, 2019 by Maren

Psalm 56:8, You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your record? God, I know we’ve already checked off — Blue Christmas service for people who are sad, lonely, depressed, and … Continue reading →

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Christmas Day — A Guest Post from David Beebe

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Maren

Thanks to David for this gift! Dispatch “The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.” – Phillips Brooks Held between earth and heaven clouds obscure the sky. A chill wind rises from the Great Sea … Continue reading →

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Improv on THE END OF IT – the final scene in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Maren

“Yes! and the bedpost is my own. The bed and the room are my own. Best and happiest of all, the time was … well, either one day or three hundred and sixty five days! What an abundance – either … Continue reading →

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Blessings for Christmas from South Africa and Aotearoa

Posted on December 25, 2016 by Maren

Beverley Osborn of Aotearoa sent this her Christmas card:  Eight hundred years ago, Hildegarde of Bingen said, “Every creature glistens and glitters as a mirror of divinity.” After a night of storms — sleep broken by the sound of lashing … Continue reading →

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Christmas comes, 2016

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Maren

Christmas comes to Maria and Iris and Rosa waiting for deportation at the Strafford County House of Correction, and ninety-seven year old Helen in hospice who used to jump with a parachute until she was eighty. It comes to the … Continue reading →

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