Song of Revolution
Advent is a time of waiting in some new way for Christmas. It’s difficult because so many traditions promote old ways. Some of them literally come out of storage boxes: the family nativity scene, tree ornaments and Grandmother’s recipes. It can be difficult to live into this season of possibility. Yet, I want to. I […]
Waiting as a Disciple – Dec. 20, 2018
“Waiting is essential to the spiritual life. But waiting as a disciple of Jesus is not an empty waiting. It is a waiting with a promise in our hearts that makes already present what we are waiting for. We wait during Advent for the birth of Jesus. We are always waiting, but it is awaiting […]
Wilderness Work
Last Sunday, the Dayspring community blessed the opening of Earthen Hands, a pottery studio near the old farmhouse. It used to be a lawnmower shed, with the usual accumulation of machines, broken tools and extra parts. Now it’s clean, with two new windows and neat working spaces around Bud Wilkinson’s old kick-wheel – a gift […]
At Home Among the Animals – Dec. 7, 2018
“In the fullness of time, the Christmas story says, a girl gave birth ringed by animals. She lay the baby in one of their feeding troughs, where animal bodies would warm the air around his fresh-born human body. Mother and child fell asleep and woke to their chuffs and shuffling hooves, their calls and the […]
