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 …
Raking in the Dark
Mark 13:24-37 It seems to happen to me every year as summer turns to fall and winter is just around the corner. It happens in an especially busy season, of course, and it happens when the weather isn’t necessarily very nice and when darkness comes sooner rather than later. And it happens because one of …
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 …