The Burning

I’ve come to start a fire…      —Luke 12:49-56, The Message In the days when a hearth fire kept the family alive, our ancestors learned to bank the fire before they went to sleep, pushing the logs and coals together to preserve the slow burning. It was important to keep it smoldering through the night, ready to […]

This Is The Season of Promise – Dec. 29, 2021

  Let the bells be silenced Let the gifts be stillborn Let cheer be muted Let music be soundless               Violence stalks the land:             Soaring above the cry of the dying             Rising above the whimper of the starving             Floating above the flying machines of death                         Listen to the long stillness:                         New life is stirring                         New […]