Archive for August 2021

“The third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee . . .” John 2:1 “The Mighty Three, my protection be, encircle me.  You are around my life, my love, my home.  Encircle me O sacred three, the Mighty Thee.”  (Traditional Celtic Wedding blessing spoken by the bride and the groom) A wedding celebration! …

“Restore to me the joy of your salvation.”  Psalm 51 “Therefore you have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one is going to take your joy away from you.”  Jesus in John 16:22 Joy thieves.  Entities that threaten to steal our joy.  You know what I’m…

“The women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy . . .” Matt. 28:8 “Happiness turns up more or less where you’d expect it to—Joy, on the other hand, is as notoriously unpredictable as the one who bequeaths it.”  Frederick Buechner Just as the Spirit is unpredictable, so too are the gifts…

“They rejoiced with exceedingly great joy” Matthew 2:10 “Laughter lightens your load and lifts your heart into heavenly places.”  Sarah Young It’s not Christmas.  I know.  But I love Christmas for the joy it brings.  This Christmas joy is captured in the response of the Magi to the sighting of the star and coming into…

(Part 2 of Galatians 5:22) “. . . And the greatest of these is love.” 1 Cor. 13 “Love gives not but itself and takes naught from itself.  Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed.  For love is sufficient unto love.  And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love,…