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Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know or Home At Last

“You’re right, Sissy. It’s beautiful.” “I told you. Shiloh. Sit, boy. Good dog!” “Everything here is just exactly as Grandma described, isn’t it?” Tully caught a snowflake on his mittened hand and marveled that the designs were even more intricate now that they were here. “Her home is exactly what she dreamed of having.” Sissy …[ read more ]

Confessions of a Spiritual Hunchback with Lock Jaw

Do your shoulders hurt? Mine do. Partly it’s from carrying bags of books and files back and forth to work and partly it’s from carrying around the tension of my life. It might be that if I only carried my own life tension I wouldn’t ache the way I do but I also tend to …[ read more ]

Angelic Appearings and Smelly Shepherds – Advent of a New Tradition Week Two

So, I’m into my second week of the Advent of a New Tradition – that of being WITH God every day of advent and of intentionally being WITH others to express the love of Christ on those same days. By the end of last week, one thing that stood out to me is how easy …[ read more ]

Lenny Thomas Had Seen It All

Lenny Thomas had seen it all. He’d been a big-rig trucker for twenty-five years and nothing surprised him anymore. He’d crossed the country more times than he could remember and run across every character you could imagine and some you couldn’t. As he pulled up behind the break down on I-95 just outside of Bethlehem, …[ read more ]

‘Tis Better to Receive – The Scandal of Christmas

Ever see two people fight to pick up a check? A meal shared is a lovely thing but then the bill comes and someone has to pay. I’ve seen people go to astounding lengths – leaping across tables, intercepting waitresses, arm wrestling, artful gymnastics, diversion and trickery – all in order to be the one …[ read more ]