John 11:32-44 I usually start with the ritual as I approach All Saints Sunday, so precious is it to me and to so many. I begin by imagining the candles lit, one after another after another. With the names spoken and the bell tolled, doubled this time through for last year we could not do …
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These Precious Gifts of All Saints Day
Isaiah 25:6-9 Revelation 21:1-6a John 11:32-44 And oh, it is so that I am needing All Saints Day this year. It has long been a favorite for me, yes, but the losses are running deep and hard this time around and I can hardly wait to stand still in the gifts of the day. Indeed, …
All Saints Day: Claiming the Easter Promise
Isaiah 25:6-9John 11:32-44 For as long as I have been a pastor, I have loved All Saints Day. In some years, I have made the time to walk through a local cemetery — returning to those places I have frequented in the months past. Other years, time just gets away from me or the weather …
On Cool October Breezes and All Saints’ Day Once More
John 11:32-44 It’s the ending we all hope for, isn’t it? You and I who stood at gravesides some four days or four months or four years after the dirt has filled in the gaping wound in the ground before us and grass has grown up over it — only covering up the hurt — but not …