Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come.mark 13:33 Last year at this time, I was serving as Interim Rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Painesville, Ohio. It gave me an opportunity to revive a practice that I had enjoyed when I was in active full-time parish ministry –ContinueContinue reading “ADVENT DRAWS NEAR”
Category Archives: Hope
A HOPE FOR PEACE
Gratitude is the emotional response to the surprise of our very existence.Diana Butler Bass (Grateful, p. 43) I am writing on Thanksgiving Eve of 2023 – Wednesday, November 22. It didn’t occur to me until last night, as my wife and I were driving home from an interfaith Thanksgiving service, that it was sixty yearsContinueContinue reading “A HOPE FOR PEACE”
GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE…
Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.[Revelation 1:4b-5 NRSV] Grace to you and peace… AsContinueContinue reading “GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE…”
Walking Together in Faith 