November 2020 archive

Advent 2 – Watch

Written as part of an Advent Daily Devotional for the UCC in Wallace, ID Don’t ask me to explain it, but Crystal has had a fascination with one of our prayer plants for nearly as long as she’s been part of the family. If she’s around when I water it, she moves in for a …

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Advent 1 – Setting Up the Creche

Written for Advent Worship for the UCC in Wallace, ID Tradition has an opinion about where Jesus was born, but all the Gospel writers tell us is that there was no place for them in the inn. That leaves us free to imagine the specifics.  Where do you think the nativity is set? A barn, …

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November 15, 2020

PASTORAL PRAYER O Holy One, you are indeed a generous God. We give you thanks for the abundance of gifts that you lavish upon us, some large and spectacular, obvious for all to see; others small and ordinary, so woven into the everyday fabric of our lives that we fail to recognize them for the …

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