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Advent Meditation: Wednesday, December 25, 2019

By Cynthia Briggs Kittredge

Dec 1, 2019

Psalm 72, 111, 113 •  2 Samuel 7:1-17  •  Luke 1:39-48a(48b-56) “And it came to pass in those days.” Here begins the first, and for a long time the only, passage of scripture I had ever known by heart, thanks to my starring role as narrator in the Christmas pageant as a child. On first […]

Advent Meditation: Tuesday, December 24, 2019

By Clarke Heidrick

Dec 1, 2019

Psalm 66, 67, 116, 117 •  1 Samuel 2:1b-10  •  Luke 1:26-38 In these verses of Luke, the angel Gabriel visits Mary, a virgin, and tells her that she is to be the mother of the son of God. Gabriel also informs Mary that her relative, Elizabeth, an older woman thought to be barren, was […]

Advent Meditation: Monday, December 23, 2019

By The Rev. Cheryl Kirk-Duggan

Dec 1, 2019

Psalm 61, 62, 112, 115 •  Zephaniah 3:14-20  •  Luke 1:1-25 Luke 1 asks us to suspend reality and embrace absurdity. Girls are born with all their eggs. Eggs get old. Unless they have conceived previously, by age forty, most women can’t bear children. If she gets pregnant for the first time after age forty, […]

Advent Meditation: Sunday, December 22, 2019

By C. Andrew Doyle

Dec 1, 2019

Psalm 8, 24, 29, 84 •  Genesis 3:8-15  •  John 3:16-21 “What is it that makes people happy?” I heard a reporter ask a researcher of the topic. He replied, “A lack of nostalgia.” Nostalgia is remembering things that never were as if they could be once again. I sometimes think it is out of […]

Advent Meditation: Saturday, December 21, 2019

By Laura Masterson

Dec 1, 2019

Psalm 55, 138, 139:1-17(18-23) •  Zechariah 8:9-17  •  Matthew 25:31-46 “Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong.” It was six years ago that I was with my priest in my car. We pulled in from lunch where we explored what God was doing in my life. She brought up the priesthood. “I […]