Still Dancing With God

Today is the Winter Solstice; tonight is the longest night of the year. And this year, more than any other, I find myself sitting with the symbolism of darkness and light, sitting and wondering what will come as tomorrow the light grows stronger and longer. For much of this year, for much of the past few years, darkness has seemed to rule. Friends and family were lost to death from the disease we tried so hard to avoid, and the…

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It’s a new church year in a new church. But even though the year officially started with the First Sunday of Advent, for me it started on October 31st when I celebrated Reformation Sunday for the very first time.  It was a beautiful and bittersweet milestone in my life that I never expected would happen. There was a brass ensemble calling us to worship; the choir (which I joined even before filing my new member registration) sang two perfect hymns,…

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