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Wild Child Spirit

By Toni Belhu

Dec 2, 2020

God provided a Wild Child to promote courageA Wild Child to help you bare your soulA Wild Child to affirm your existenceFor God knew you before you were born Jesus is the Word for all who will listenThe Word that says “Come to me”The Word that is to be shared with othersIn their time of […]

An Invitation to Keep Awake to the Work of Reconciliation and Healing

By Sarah Diener-Schlitt

Nov 24, 2020

I have been learning about my role within the work of racial reconciliation, my responsibility to be curious about systems that were built to serve my white skin. I continue to come back, again and again, to the ways that this work of healing is disciplined and practiced in nature. It requires me to wade […]

Advent Meditation: Friday, December 25, 2020

By Cynthia Briggs Kittredge

Nov 23, 2020

: Psalm 97  •  Isaiah 62:6-12  •  Titus 3:4-7 • Luke 2:(1-7), 8-20 “And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.” “The hopes and fears of all the years are met in […]

Advent Meditation: Thursday, December 24, 2020

By Clarke Heidrick

Nov 23, 2020

: Psalm 96  •  Isaiah 9:2-7  •  Titus 2:11-14 • Luke 2:1-20 In this passage, Mary and Joseph make their way from Nazareth to Bethlehem for the census. Mary had been told by the Angel Gabriel months before that she was to bear a child who would be the son of God. She had responded […]

Advent Meditation: Wednesday, December 23, 2020

By Gena Minnix

Nov 23, 2020

: 1 Samuel 2:1-10  •  Luke 1:46b-55  •  Mark 11:1-11 “There is no Holy One like the Lord,     no one besides you;     there is no Rock like our God.” 1 Sam 2:2-4 I want to be rock-strong and capable of holding still while chaos whips around us, and yet, rocks crumble; over time, […]