“We may not be big, but we’re small”. The motto of the Vinyl Café could be Bethlehem’s motto. I love Micah 5:2 because it reminds me that I really do belong in God’s Kingdom. God has a history of using and seeking out that which is small to do great things. Think...
We all know about darkness. How many people have been afraid of the dark? Darkness has shadows and uncertainty and hidden dangers. Sometimes the darkness is actual and tangible, like being stranded in the middle of nowhere on a cloudy December night, with an absence...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, “Human beings are dehumanized by fear. . . .” Fear makes us less than what we truly are, what God made us and calls us to be. Those shepherds in the fields outside of Bethlehem that night had a profound fear experience. An angel! And not the...
Recently, I heard someone on the CBC Radio program Quirks and Quarks, explaining that our brains are hardwired for bad news. Apparently, bad news is what we most readily receive and respond to. It’s an evolved form of self-protection, a way to avoid the perils of...
Just after my mother died eleven years ago, my family and I were invited to Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church for a memorial mass in my mother’s memory. We aren’t Catholic, but some of my mom’s friends had sponsored Mass’ for her during her time with breast cancer. The...
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