The Messenger – January 2014
PJ’s Page Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz said it: “There’s no place like home.” We’ve heard crooners singing it over the holidays: “Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays.” And it is true. There is no place like home and Bruce and I are filled with gladness as we return home and to our community of faith following our journey to Germany. It was grand – all that…
January 1, 2014
by Steve Olson A New Year is upon us. Only a week ago we celebrated the birth of Christ and now we celebrate the birth of a new year. Ring out the old, bring in the new. Images of the old man with the scythe trudging out the back door as the baby swaddled in a bright banner announcing 2014 bounces in the front. Everything is new and we get a restart. I make my…
December 31, 2013
by Rev. Julie G. Hutson Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.” -John 8: 12 Jesus Christ is the light of the world, begins our Evening Prayer liturgy. And the response: The light no darkness can overcome. On this last day of the year, I like to do an examen of the…