Mark 13:24-37 “And what I say to you, I say to all: Keep awake.” I knew it as soon as I smelled it burning from the stove top. I had failed the one job I was given on Thanksgiving Day: to watch the cranberry sauce. In a very real sense, I had fallen asleep! For …
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End Times, Advent and Hope…
Mark 13:24-37 I remember it like it was yesterday, that summer’s day more than fifty years ago. They were rare and precious days, time spent with favorite cousins who lived at a distance. Only now it is not that which stays with me, but a sense of foreboding terror building in my 7 year old …
Watching and Waiting
Mark 13:24-37 It is late November. Every year at this time it is a challenge to get the leaves raked and bagged or pushed to the curb before the city’s December 1st deadline for removing them. One year I simply waited too long and was left with a dozen bags of leaves still sitting at …