Today is the first Monday in Advent. Advent is one of my favorite times of year – it’s a time of waiting and preparing for what might be the most special day in the entire year. In honor of the start of Advent, here’s today’s Music Monday – O Come O Come Emmanuel. This is [ Read More ]
Archive for November, 2009
So sorry for the lack of posting last week. Wedding planning is in full force and took a lot of my free time last week. I promise to be better this week – several topics are brewing in my head. This week you get a very, very, very special edition of Music Monday. This song [ Read More ]
Today’s Music Monday is a song that always hits me, no matter when I hear it. As I was driving to a meeting this morning (running late of course) I popped in an unmarked CD and this was the first song. Here’s “The Blessing” by John Waller: This song always reminds me that every single [ Read More ]
I first became aware of the Charter for Compassion, because of Cathleen Falsani’s recent blog post. You can read the charter here, or you can hear it in the following video: I think this is brilliant. Not only is it brilliant, it’s necessary if we are to be true followers of Christ. Christ was, above [ Read More ]
I’m reading a great book by Mark Yaconelli called Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus. As I was reading yesterday, this paragraph hit me hard: Jesus is generous, patient, kind, welcoming, courageous, truthful, and compassionate. Jesus is available to people. He is attentive to God and to others in the present moment. He [ Read More ]
