Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Thursday, Dec 24 – DAY 27 On the eve of holy love’s renewed arrival in the world, we prepare ourselves. How do you get ready to welcome love at the door of your heart? To answer when it knocks on the threshold of your life? Perhaps simply by listening. Waiting. And setting aside any sense[…]
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with Jackson Community Church: THURS, Dec 24: CHRISTMAS EVE 5pm • OUTDOOR CANDLELIGHT WALK JCC groundsOutside on JCC grounds. In-person. Social distance. Masks required. Gather outside for a firelit journey with carols (sung to you) and the Christmas story shared in a walk between a few ‘stations’ around the church grounds,[…]
Wednesday, Dec 23 – DAY 26 As we draw closer to the celebration of holy love’s arrival within our lives, as honored on Christmas Day, we may reflect on how our human experience of love has already shaped us. Who in our early lives offered us models of love? What forms did that love take?[…]
Tuesday, Dec 22 – DAY 25 Love also has other expressions. It can involve partners with whom we achieve eros, a passionate love. Over time, it is also found as a more mature love that endures through long-term relationships, and is called pragma. As one commentator explained, “Unlike the other types of love, pragma[…]
Monday, Dec 21 – DAY 23 Every form of love reflects some aspect of the greatest love: agape. Take friendship, for instance, which can also denote kinship. It has been called storge or filios. In these days, we have reason to cherish friendship more than ever. We’re socially isolated and cognizant of how precious our[…]
