Posted in Church Year on Jan 5th, 2010
Tomorrow is Epiphany, the day Christians celebrate the coming of the Magi to visit the Christ child. So here’s one last excerpt from my book: One of the themes Epiphany raises is of call and response. The wise men saw the star and so they left all they held familiar and dear to follow it, [...]
As I think about the year that is past and the one that lies ahead, the word that keeps recurring is grateful. I’ve always been a glass-half-empty kind of girl, prone to melodrama, self-pity, and anxiety. (Does that sound melodramatic? she wondered anxiously…) Sometime in the past few years, though, something shifted. My daughter has [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.