BEIJING, CHINA: A man enters a crumbling structure along the the Great Wall at Qinglongxia, north of Beijing, 16 July 2003. (Photo credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images) Reflections for Lent – Day 5 Did you know the Great Wall of China is crumbling? Apparently, “State media reported 01 December 2003 only about one third ofContinueContinue reading “Sidewalk Flowers: Falling apart”
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Cradling an Unknown Future
The texts for January 1, 2012: Numbers 6:22–27; Psalm 8; Galatians 4:4–7; and Luke 2:21-38. … It is also maybe why we get sentimentally sappy as the clock strikes midnight and we break out in “Auld lang sine”: “We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet for old time’s sake!” Essentially we are saying good byeContinueContinue reading “Cradling an Unknown Future”
The future present?
The texts for Sunday, December 11, 2011: Isaiah 61:1–4, 8–11; Luke 1:46b–55; 1 Thessalonians 5:16–24; and John 1:6–8, 19–28 … But John’s authority —his words —his whole reason for being is not to point to the past is not to recreate the past but to point to the coming of God … the future, but inContinueContinue reading “The future present?”
Jabbok Dawn 