Category: peace
Updated on January 8, 2021
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Everyone talks at the same time at our dinner table. It’s a cacophony of voices, loud chewing, and forks clanging on plates. Its boys jostling for milk and salt and attention; laughter, politics, ridiculous comments, and someone always …
Updated on December 4, 2020
Unprecedented Advent
Advent 2020 began last Sunday. And because it is 2020, I should not be shocked that it began in a bit of an unprecedented way for me. Isn’t that the word of the year? As this season of …
Updated on December 13, 2019
A Word of Peace
We lit the second candle on the Advent wreath, the one that stands for peace, this past Sunday. And my little guy leaned over and whispered the same question he asks every year during Advent. “Hey, Mom?” he …
Updated on December 13, 2018
Are you missing a peace?
“Peace on the earth, goodwill to men. From heaven’s all gracious king! The world in solemn stillness lay to hear the angels sing” (Sears). Solemn stillness. What would that be like? I wonder as that Christmas carol plays …
Updated on November 1, 2018
Headlines, Horror, Cookies and Potato Latkes
There is a synagogue across the street from our church. We share parking lots and pleasantries during big events and holidays. We know their Rabbi and they know our Pastor. We speak and smile and try not to …
Updated on December 13, 2017
When peace comes like a snowstorm
We will be talking about it for years to come. The snowstorm that blew into the South on only the second week of Advent. The storm that no one saw coming. It fell from the sky in huge …
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