The invitation:
Come…bundle up with your boots and woolies to gather under the almost full moon and around the bonfire!
Come…celebrate the darkness on the Winter’s Solstice Eve and give thanks for the Light that is coming!
Come…there’ll be hot cocoa, wassail*, and s’mores. Bring a plate of cookies if you’d like but it’s not required.
Come…Friday, December 21, 6:30 [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Hospitality ~ Invitation
Posted in Community, Creation, Food, Friends, Gratitude, Hospitality, Seasons on 51UTC2312UTC2423pm07, DecpmSun, 23 Dec 2007 21:27:24 +00002007-12-23T21:27:24+00:0009 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hospitality ~ Enough
Posted in Advent, Family, Hope on 51UTC2112UTC3621pm07, DecpmFri, 21 Dec 2007 17:13:36 +00002007-12-21T17:13:36+00:0005 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m still pondering, and living, in the empty space and with the question of how much is enough… This is prompted in part by a laptop that still won’t turn on (what is full right now is my home with my oldest daughter returning from college and bringing her laptop with her,) declining energy [...]
Hospitality ~ Empty Spaces
Posted in Advent, Community, Faith, New Life, Pain, Passion on 50UTC1412UTC0514pm07, DecpmFri, 14 Dec 2007 18:04:05 +00002007-12-14T18:04:05+00:0006 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I had given casual thought to the relationship between hospitality and brokenness or emptiness but these past days have been a fierce invitation to live into this relationship. Being without a computer for a week (that’s another story, it seems there’s always a story…) has brought on a sense of dis-connect, a type of brokenness and emptiness [...]
Hospitality ~ Creation
Posted in Advent, Community, Creation, Faith, Hospitality, Worship on 49UTC0312UTC4003pm07, DecpmMon, 03 Dec 2007 19:52:40 +00002007-12-03T19:52:40+00:0007 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In this season of Advent, the theme at Pine Island Presbyterian Church is Hospitality. So in this space I’ll wonder on screen with words, images, and verse how hospitality may be offered… to the stranger, to ourselves, to the Holy One, by the Holy One. I’ll begin with Creation ~ looking for signs and ways of hospitality, welcoming, new [...]