This Sunday the Transition Team and I prepared a service that would share our work and your stories about VUU as part of the pilgrimage from one settled ministry to the next. Then the world intervened, as we all know. “Best laid plans,” as the poet said. Of course, we have been living in unusually uncertain times now for almost a…
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I think it was Emerson who observed that because eternity was too much for mortal minds to comprehend, God mercifully divided it into days and years. It is before dawn on December 21, 2020 as I write these few thoughts and social media is filled with comments about the annus horribilis about to end and…
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So, we went out and looked at the convergence. It was fun. But honestly, it was not a big deal. Sure, it was 800 years since they last lined up like that, but that’s only from an earth perspective. And to be totally blunt, even then only humans noticed. What is notable is not the…
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Here it is barely a week before Christmas Eve and what I am doing? Listening to lots of Beethoven. It is 250th birthday, and this yearwas supposed to be full of Ludwig performances. But Covid…. Long ago, when I was in high school, I got bitten by the classical musicbug and asked my folks if…
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I sit in a motel in Albuquerque NM as I write this midweek message. Not the usual place to be working. But these are not usual times. By now, in any other year, plans would have long been made for Christmas Eve. Of course there will be a service, but not like last year. I have…
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