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Lean Into the Light

February 2, 2015 by David Anderson 5 Comments

  Today—February 2nd—is a big turning point. It’s a great cross-quarter day, midway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. In ancient, agricultural societies it was regarded as the beginning of spring—the time for first turning the soil in preparation for March planting. There were prayers and rituals centered on the fertility of the […]

Filed Under: Awareness, LIght, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Seeing, Waiting

You Shall Conceive and Bear a (Grand) Child

December 2, 2014 by David Anderson 9 Comments

My daughter is having a baby which means that I am having a grandchild. Grandparenthood is once removed. This is a birth you did not conceive. You did not have any choice in this matter. Often parents have to “try” to have a child. They decide that now is a good time to allow it […]

Filed Under: Blessing, Family, Grace, Gratitude, Letting Go, Patience, Waiting

Luminous Darkness

December 17, 2013 by David Anderson 7 Comments

Last night I hosted the staff Christmas party here at the rectory. In preparing our home for the festivities—which always includes a raucous round of Yankee Swap—I lit all the candles in the living room. Because the room is large and has no ceiling light fixture, we have a number of lamps scattered around. But […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Daily Practice, Faith/Trust, Seeing, Waiting

“I Expect Him Today”

December 10, 2013 by David Anderson 6 Comments

Advent pulls in two directions. It recalls a “first coming” but only to awaken our senses so that we will not miss the “second coming.” I don’t go in much for the Second Coming. That’s almost completely because as a child I was taught to look for the Second Coming in literal form. Christ would […]

Filed Under: Daily Practice, Hope, Now/ the Present, Waiting

Waiting for the Bus

December 1, 2013 by David Anderson 3 Comments

I am sitting at a bus stop in Hellertown, Pennsylvania. I am not the one hoping to board a bus, it is my son-in-law, Andy. Andy and Maggy have come out to our home in Pennsylvania for Thanksgiving. Today, though, it is time to head back to New York. Maggy is staying the day since […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Faithfulness, Letting Go, Now/ the Present, Patience, Reality--trusting it, Waiting

Giving Birth in Hospice

May 7, 2013 by David Anderson 15 Comments

Pam spent last night sleeping in a chair beside her father’s hospital bed. He is dying. “It is like sitting with someone who is giving birth,” Pam said. “It’s hard work. It can be frightening—you need strength and courage to undergo this suffering, this ordeal, to bring a life to birth. And,” she said, “it’s […]

Filed Under: Death/Dying, Family, Letting Go, Now/ the Present, Reality--trusting it, Waiting

The Man Who Spoils Advent

December 12, 2012 by David Anderson 2 Comments

It happens every year. We get off to such a beautiful start in Advent, and then he shows up. This season of hope and expectation opens with the lighting of the first purple candle and a glorious reading from Isaiah. Then comes the second Sunday of Advent, and he makes his annual appearance, the man […]

Filed Under: Change, Faith in Action, Forgiveness, Repentance, Waiting

The Arrival

December 7, 2012 by David Anderson 2 Comments

In “the Arrival,” a 1996 Sci-Fi, Charlie Sheen stars as a radio astronomer who scans the heavens for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence. His radio telescope is trained on the stars, hoping to pick up a narrow band of radiation that would belie the communication of an advanced civilization beyond our solar system. A poster on […]

Filed Under: Faith/Trust, Grace, Now/ the Present, Prayer/Meditation, Seeing, Waiting

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