Fourth Tuesday of Advent
If you watched “Wilshire’s Got Talent” last weekend, you heard LeAnn and me play a duet of “Coventry Carol” on flute and concertina. We chose it in part because we could play it together, but also because it’s just a lovely melody. Somber, haunting, quiet – it’s been a favorite of mine for years, but I have to admit that I didn’t understand what it was about until recently.
Continue reading “One Sweet Note”Fourth Monday of Advent
Originally posted Monday, December 24, 2012
Last night while wrapping gifts and baking cookies, LeAnn and I watched an old movie we’d never seen before: It Happened on 5th Avenue. It’s a 1947, black-and-white story about Aloyisius T. McKeever, a hobo who every year sneaks into the 5th Avenue mansion of Michael J. O’Connor, the world’s wealthiest man who has gone to Virginia for the winter.
Continue reading “Front Door People”Fourth Sunday of Advent
From Wilshire Advent Devotions 2011
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, thought like a child, reasoned like a child.”
I celebrated Christmas like a child, too, which is fine because there is a wide strand of wonder and excitement woven through the Christmas holiday tailor-made for children. It engages their senses, and with the right nurturing it connects them to the true meaning of Christmas in a way they can understand. The hope, of course, is that children will embrace that meaning—the gift of “God with us”—and the relationships we can have with each other through Christ.
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