JANUARY 4: WAITING FOR THE EPIPHANY
"I don’t really know how to
engage Jesus, the
infant, or even Jesus, the toddler. And aside from the
theological and
incarnational implications involved, I can’t even get excited
about His
ever having been such. I just want to rush through all that stuff and
get to the Man…"
DECEMBER 7: SLIPPING INTO THE MYSTERY THIS ADVENT
There are few things in life that I
am truly “fixated” on, in the sense
of never really being able to let them go … But there is undeniably one story that I have spent my life in
thrall to; and this being the First Sunday of a month, and second Sunday in
Advent, I cannot shake off my need to tell that story
once again
.
NOVEMBER 2: THOUGHTS ON TRAVEL AND TREES
A man—a genteel and gracious older man who, with his wife,
was my host
at a Sunday luncheon some few weeks ago—asked me if I enjoyed
traveling
as much as I do. There was about the directness of the question and
the
directness of his gaze an intensity which told me that his was not some idle
question offered up for the sake of making social conversation. He
truly wanted
to know.
OCTOBER 5: A CHANCE FOR CHANGE
Today is a day of considerable significance, perhaps even of
great
significance. We won’t know which descriptor is the more accurate for
several months, of course, maybe even not for a few years; but for
right now,
there is no question that calling this Sunday a significant
one is the very
least we can say of it....
AN INTRODUCTION
In this endeavor, I hope
two things: I hope I shall ride the circuit
responsibly, and I hope you
will
ride it with me, commencing
on October 5th when “First
Sundays” will
begin
running in this space.
