My next “Faith Perspectives” column for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch appeared just in time for Christmas, a reminder (quoting Pope Francis) that “Thou Shall Not Steal” is about more than just not taking what doesn’t belong to us. You can read my column below or online here: http://bit.ly/2rQMm6U …
Category: Christmas
Thanks to you all for reading and responding this past year. Here's a little Christmas greeting for you that asks the important question: What is Christmas to you? Christmas to me, echoes the mystery The sacred holy night A grace so pure and bright. …
It’s almost Christmas. It’s the fourth week of advent. And we wait. But for what? …
The creative and artistic process requires a willingness to move beyond “I’m not really equipped for this and don’t yet have all the right experiences” to a simple “yes.” …
As we near Christmas, we recall both the woundedness of our lives and the joy of the birth of the Christ, who came to bind up our wounds, heal our brokenness and fill the empty spaces in our lives. …
This is the call to a life of active contemplation, to a life of listening for the voice of God and actually expecting to hear something. Not a sound, perhaps, but nevertheless a knowing, a sense of God’s presence and direction. …
A Light in Darkness A Christmas Villanelle A light in darkness fights off the cold thrust into the world yet of its own making. The new life is fragile but the message is bold. A gentle king, as the prophets foretold, stirs in the straw and yawns in his waking. A light in darkness fights off the cold. A star from the East beckons prophecies old, the expanse between heaven and Earth is breaking. The new life is fragile but …
The Christmas story is both human and divine, and the divine lies in the “why” of the story. If we cannot fully understand the why, perhaps we can at least kneel in its presence, recognizing the holy — somehow — when we see it. …
God, of course, is the giver of everything that is good and creative in our lives, even though we tend to call these things “mine.” MY gifts, MY time, MY talents. Carelessly and thoughtlessly, we can convince ourselves that we have earned these things when, in fact, they are pure gifts. …
ut how can this be? How can he believe? That an angel came down from above? Are there those not afraid to live by their faith? Are there gifts as simple as love? …