Heart 2 Heart

As I woke this morning, for some reason I was pondering how accessible we expect our electrical energy sources to be.  We have numerous items on charge, from cars to computers, all at the touch of a button.   It’s awesome to think that the sun, which rises predictably every morning, can be used as the source for our need.  The wind too, slightly less predictably as it blows where it wills, but nevertheless still blows and can be an amazing source of electrical power.  Energy is received and released, harnessed and deployed.  We want our electrical power source to be a continuously pulsing never ending supply.  And these days, we want it to be renewable and sustainable too.  We demand from the cosmos its power and the cosmos demands that we respectfully respect its limits.   But life is more than just our electrical needs.  Our life requires renewable and sustainable energy, too.  Not just for our bodies, but our whole selves, spiritual, ...

  As we prepare for Christmas, I wonder what you’re having to make room for.  Are you having to make space in a bedroom for extra guests or an extra chair or several at your table?  Are you rearranging your furniture to make room for a Christmas tree or even rearranging your outdoor planters to make room for a blow up snowman or Santa?  I wonder if you have time, or consciously make room, for pondering what Christmas is about? This year, somewhere between the tinsel and the turkey, or maybe in the days between year end and year beginning, I invite you to make room for pondering Christ Jesus.  This is after all what many Christians around the world do during Advent.  They intentionally stop and take a pause to remember that first Christmas, which reminds them that Jesus is the Christ child that gave us Christmas.  But why does it matter today, 2,000 plus years later?  I’m looking forward to Christmas 2022.  It seems so much more hopeful than r...