Weekly Meditations

Reflections on Advent 1: Hope

Of History and Hope (excerpt) — Miller Williams We have memorized America, how it was born and who we have been and where. In ceremonies and silence we say the words, telling the stories, singing the old songs. We like the places they take us. Mostly we do. … But where are we going to[…]

Reflections on giving plus meditations on Veterans Day

Excerpt from Second Inaugural Address … public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation … Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray[…]

Reflections on being heard & listening: themes from Hebrews

Do you feel heard? Seen? Recognized? Beloved? Here are Rev Barbara Brown Taylor’s thoughts on the Love who insists one being Present and bears Witness to our lives: “I use the word “sacred” to describe something that grounds me in this world and opens me up to another world all at the same time. Oceans[…]

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