Monday, December 16, 2013 — Morning Prayer
Maria and I never met Kathleen Moore. This is one of her prayers in the Psalms to the Cloud collaboration, that lights my morning today: […]
AuthorMaren Tirabassi
Sunday, December 15, 2013 — Morning Reflection
On the seventh day God rested. Earlier we thought about how the Christmas story begins with creation. And later we prayed about how the busyness […]
Friday, December 13, 2013 — Morning Reflection
Kipp Gilmore-Clough of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, writes about the idea that gave to a prayer he calls Home Brewer’s Prayer. It is an Advent discipline … […]
Thursday, December 12, 2013 — Morning Prayer
Good morning to the boldness of bridge building. Gerardo CC Oberman of Buenos Aires, Argentina’s prayer in From the Psalms to the Clouds. If we […]
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 — Morning Reflection
Morning breaks with snow across the seacoast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and I am happy to be connected with so many weathers, landscapes, seascapes through […]
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 — Morning Reflection
We yearn for the second coming of Jesus, for the end of this world of cruelty and suffering and the true coming of God`s will […]
Monday, December 9, 2013 — Morning Reflection
The third theme of Advent is joy. In my mind, the two famous half-hour Christmas shows Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas […]
Friday, December 6, 2013 — Morning Reflection
The second theme of Advent is peace. True peace that is not the absence of conflict and war but rather a reign of justice and […]
Long Road to Freedom
Exodus 6:6-7: “I am the Lord and I will free you…and deliver you from slavery… I will take you as my people, and I will […]
Thursday, December 5, 2013 — Morning Reflection
The first theme of Advent is hope. So we begin our new year by looking forward to the end of time, when the weak and […]
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 — Morning Reflection
Celebrating the beginning of Advent. The story of Christmas begins in the creation stories of Genesis and the Psalms. John certainly recognizes this at the […]
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 — Morning Reflection
From Wendell Berry: Learn by little the desire for all things which perhaps is not desire at all but undying love which perhaps is not […]
Christmas Art 2013
This year’s art submissions were really incredible—from a cute little scribble from a two-year-old to a painting from a 92-year-old! Talk about variety. You can […]
Monday, December 2, 2013 — Morning Reflection
From Wendell Berry: Since, despite the stern demands of scientist and realist, we will always be supposing, let us suppose that Nature gave the world […]
Sunday, December 1, 2013 — Morning Reflection
The frog with lichened back and golden thigh Sits still, almost invisible On leafed and lichened stem, Invisibility Its sign of being at home There […]
Holy Awkwardness
“Travelling Christmas carols!” my friend Faye announced. “I saw it in a movie once and I think our church should try it.”
Community News – December 2013
Team PWS&D Raises Over $10,000 in Toronto Marathon A team of runners raised about $10,500 for Presbyterian World Service and Development in the Scotiabank Toronto […]
Christmas Alone
It was my first Christmas alone and my internal landscape was as bleak as leafless trees against a grey sky. There was no warmth or comfort that year.
A Good Social Network
Rev. Dr. Chinchai Wang, noticed that Taiwanese seniors were isolated. They complained that Canada was a beautiful country but they were blind, mute, deaf and crippled. Their eyes did not understand English, their mouths could not speak English and they could not drive or get directions.
Historical Morsels
The second volume of Profiles in Mission is a smorgasbord of historical morsels picked from the history of the Atlantic Mission Society and its predecessors.