Not As They Should Be
5 th Sunday of Ordinary Time; Matthew 13-16 …your light must shine before others so that they may… give praise to God. Where is usually found a panorama of green and color, is now but a blanket of white. The eight or so inches of snow has been blown smooth and flat by the winter winds and not a single ripple or rise can be seen. One brave creature has created a line in the snow, as it made its way to the bird feeder to see if there might be a few scraps to feed on. The h
What If
4 th Sunday of Ordinary Time; Matthew 5: 1-12 Blessed are those who are poor in spirit; the reign of heaven is theirs. One of the great “what ifs” in my life is what would I have done if I were old enough to have been able to participate in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. As a middle school aged kid in white suburbia, there were no opportunities to speak my mind. Fortunately, my mother kept me apprised of what was happening and allowed me to watch the evening new
A-Hah!
Baptism of Jesus; Matthew 3:13-17 This is my Own, my Beloved, Baptisms, much like Epiphanies, are “A-Hah” moments. They are a moment when things look clearer and ideas seem achievable. We are invited to leave old ways behind and step out in faith to something new. We can leave past hurts in the past and allow a new spirit to fill our souls so that God can do a new and better work in us. Each of us have many new beginnings in our life. Many of us were baptized as infants
