Christmas at the McDermott’s was at my mother’s house every year I can remember as a teenager and later as an adult. Grandmother’s lipstick kisses on the cheeks when I was younger, and uncles with vice grip handshakes.
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So many people carry around an image of God that weighs them down with a heavy spiritual burden. They might imagine God as distant or disinterested, as angry or judgemental, as simple or placating
Do you ever think that once whatever you’re struggling with is over, then you’ll be able to be joyful? Does “joy” as most of us think of it sometimes feel contingent on things going well or being “right” in our world?
It is what I was born for: to look, to listen inside this soft world — to instruct myself over and over. — mary oliver There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a…
Before this Sunday’s message, I want you to reflect on your image of God. What do you think God is like? What is God’s personality? How does God act towards people, feel towards people, treat people? Who do you think God is like?
Most of us at one time or another in our lives have experienced music that so deeply resonates in our soul we can’t help but join in. What’s that about? Why is it that music moves us so?
Every once in a while as a musician, I experience a moment of absolute beauty and my soul just opens up and relaxes for a moment. I rarely have any warning about when these moments will happen, but they are SO very rare and powerful that I find myself saying yes to way more projects than I probably should, just in case.
This week, I am recalling some ideas from a blog post a few years ago that speak well to our upcoming Advent series. I hope you enjoy the thoughts and that your week is filled with warm and playful memories, friends and family, and all the tastes and smells that delight this time of year!
What do you normally do to prepare for Christmas? If you’re like most of us the season is filled with shopping for gifts, baking, decorating, wrapping the aforementioned gifts and placing them under a beautifully decorated tree in eager expectation of Christmas morning.
Everyone has a story to tell of a moment or place or person that mediated the presence of wonder and grace. This Sunday, November 24, at eleven:eleven, singer/songwriter Elizabeth Wills will join us for our first-ever, Open Mic Story Arc Sunday!