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Blog Archives: January 2021
The Ritual of Morning Coffee
January 25, 2021
“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.” – Dorothy Day
If somebody asked me to sum up my daily spiritual practice, that above quote by the great social activist and writer Dorothy Day would work.
In this reflection I want to walk you through my morning rhythm, and invite you to adapt anything that matches your own rhythms. I am a coffee drinker, but of course you can substitute coffee with tea or something else.
I begin my mornings like this:
I wake up. I go to the bathroom. I drink a cup of ...
How We Almost Burned Down the Sanctuary
January 18, 2021
A confession: we almost burned down the sanctuary on December 26, 2020.
Okay, maybe the sanctuary wasn’t completely at risk, but there was a small accidental fire caused by a certain someone (let’s call him…Jim Toosma).
As we were lighting the Advent candles and got to the Christ candle our lighter ran out of butane. And we were in a hurry. It was one minute before our Tap Nights livestream service started. That’s a combustible combo trying to light something on fire in desperation and hurry.
After failed attempts of using another ...
The Surprise of New Wine
January 08, 2021
There is this wonderful moment at the end of Anne Rice’s novel Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. It’s a fascinating book written from the first-person perspective of Jesus. The book ends at the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry, at the wedding in Cana (John 2:1-11). Jesus’ brothers don’t believe that he changed the water into wine but he disciples believe he did. And an argument erupts:
“Now, that I do not believe,” declared my brother James. “Cleopas, did you witness this yourself, what they’re saying, that all the wine being ...
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