Our pandemic has brought many miseries, but the biggest loss may be its loneliness. There since the beginning – along with fear, alarm, frustration, confusion, and anger – to name a few of its covid-spawned siblings – our ache from unconnectedness has formed the backdrop of our nearly year-long experience. With Christmas only…..
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As part of the fallout from our current lockdown, I’m feeling hug deprived. Not only do I not have my grandkids to hold, but I’m also missing the many pleasant greeting embraces I typically receive in the course of a week from my friends and family.
I’ve heard little talked about this great loss COVID has wrought – our restrictions on touching each other. In the new post-pandemic world will we have to refrain…..
When we read Exodus’s story of Israel’s flight into the desert, we usually observe the fickleness of the Hebrews – how they praise God one minute and turn around and complain the next. But when we find ourselves in our own spiritual wilderness period, it’s pretty easy to find things to grouse about.
In the…..
I don’t know about you, but when I hear the word, “Repent!” I’m picturing a crazy person with a placard proclaiming the end of the world. Somehow it seems difficult to treat the idea of “repenting” seriously.
Maybe it’s because we think only really big wrongs call for repentance……