Luke 21:29-31,34 Seasons Reflection:  I didn’t realize it until I lived in San Diego for a few years, but the four seasons of the year are a real treasure (even winter!).  Not unlike the Christmas Star showing the way, seasons really foreshadow what is coming.  Each...

1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 (The Message) Hope Reflection:  Christians believe that Jesus is coming back. Believing this, charges each moment of the present with hope. Paul prods the Thessalonian Church and us on this sixth day of Advent to continue to live forward in taut...

Luke 21:31 Comfort Reflection: 2020 was a challenging year for us all. The fear of contracting Covid overwhelmed our lives creating a general feeling of anxiety for most of us. I found myself looking to history for reassurance that challenges have been defeated before...

     Revelation 22:16 Morning Star Reflection: Although this passage from Revelation is not one of the lectionary texts for the week, reading the story of the Magi in Matthew 2:1-6 led me to explore a bit about the use of the star image in the Bible. In the story of...

                                                                 Psalm 25:9-10 Risk Reflection:  When I was in middle school, my family lived by a pond. One day in late winter, a friend from the neighborhood knocked on our door to announce that his brother was stuck...