…a lot of us walk around with the first two bars of a symphony in our heads, imagining that someday, when we have a better idea of what comes next, we’ll start to play. Some of the most transformative moments in my life happened when a person or incident gave me the strength or abandonment to haul off and play to the end of that second bar and see what came next.
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Coincidentally, my first post comes on the first Sunday of Advent, the start of the new Christian liturgical year. In church this morning we lit the first of four Advent candles, each a reminder and precursor of the greater Light that breaks through on Christmas, […]
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This sermon was originally preached at Mission Hills UCC, January 31, 2016 Scripture readings: Jeremiah 1:4-10; Luke 4:21-30 I love listening to stories of how people first heard their call, first understood what their life’s vocation would be. For most of us, I think, it’s less of […]