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  • What Can Happen When Community Comes Together

    11 years ago, we came together to fight hunger. Here is what I recorded at the time. I think some of it is still relevant because the struggle continues:

  • The Mending Wall

    “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”

  • Sea Change

  • In All Their Distress and Sea Change

    “…in all their distress. It was no messenger or angel but his presence that saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.” – Isaiah 63:9 (NRSV)

  • This Day – Advent Gospels – Day 27

    SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12/24/2021   Away in a Manger Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.  Everyone knew what a manger was, and it was no place for…

  • What Will This Child Become? – Advent Gospels – Day 26

    SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12/23/2021   Luke 1:57-66 Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.  On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were…

  • What Did Mary Know? – Advent Gospels – Day 25

    Hear Mary Did You Know (Official Music Video) | GENTRI (feat. Mat and Savanna Shaw) from YouTube.

  • Home – Advent Gospels – Day 24

    SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12/21/21 “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” – John 14:2 Home! Home, sweet, home! That’s where we are going. That is where we belong. Anything short of home is still…

  • “How Will I Know?” – Advent Gospels – Day 23

    SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12/20/21 Luke 1:1-25 Since many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, I too decided, after investigating everything…

  • My Soul Magnifies the Lord – Advent Gospels – Day 22

    SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12/19 “And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord …” – Luke 1:46 The Magnificat remains one of the most glorious expressions of praise in all of musical literature. Perhaps, someday, in Heaven, God will allow us to hear a replay of the day Mary visited her cousin…