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2023 word for the year — I have had the worst time trying to find a word to carry me through 2023. 2020 was the beginning of the great pandemic, but I didn’t know that when I chose “Grace” as my word for the year. I chose “Wait” for 2021 and found myself without a university…

The Beginning and the End Christmas day Prayer from Anglican Book of Common Prayer Almighty God, you have given your only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and to be born of a pure virgin: Grant that we, who have been born again and made your children by adoption…

Advent 2022 week 4 Prayer from Anglican Book of Common Prayer Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us. As we are sorely hindered by our sins from running the race that is set before us, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and…

Advent 2022 week 3 — Prayer from Anglican Book of Common Prayer O Lord Jesus Christ, you sent your messengers, the prophets, to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation. Grant that the ministers and stewards of your mysteries may likewise make ready your way by turning the hearts of the disobedient toward…

O come Emmanuel, our glorious hope Music holds listeners in ways that words often cannot. Throughout history music has continually reflected legacy, loss, longing, love, and lament. Biblical songs appear as early as the Exodus (Exodus 15) and continue through John’s revelation (Revelation 15). The themes of most Bible songs…

Advent 2022- Week 2 — Prayer from Anglican Book of Common Prayer Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, learn, mark, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and the comfort of your Holy Word we may embrace and ever hold fast…

Advent devotions 2022 Prayer from Anglican Book of Common Prayer Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son, Jesus Christ, came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he…

Gratitude requires all three — Thanksgiving and Advent are upon us. Thanksgiving offers an opportunity to look at the past and the present with gratitude for the good in our lives. Advent points us forward to the new year living under the new covenant with God and to the coming of the Lord in glory. …

Now what? How did we get here? My goodness. Just when I begin to think the divisive politicking of the American public has reached the bottom, something happens on one extreme side or the other to show me more depths of depravity. Morally vacant candidates fight to see which commits the most egregious sins. Old…