We are back in California on a "study week" as we prepare for our next leg of the sabbatical journey. As we reflect and "adapt," we've seen that sometimes it is all a matter of perspective...
...Hannah, for instance, on our first day back asked, "Are we going on a bus, a train, or a plane today?" That was the life she lived, after all, for three weeks!
...Jude, when we attended Westminster Presbyterian Church in Westlake for worship (where a friend pastors), Jude walked in and looked around and then said, "Wow, this place is tiny." And it must have looked tiny to a 5-year-old who had spent the last two Sundays worshipping in Notre Dame and then with 3,000 people at the church in Taize.
Words and picture give a different perspective... so we are including a link so you can see our European travels through the perspective of a picture slide show... at least that was our plan... but after two excruciating hours... of setting at it all, writing captions... then it disappeared into cyber world... and then we tried again... and it the icons just spun... and then we tried again... and then we started to cuss... and then we said ENOUGH ALREADY... oh, wait... maybe... try this:www.me.com/gallery/#100019... if it doesn't work, c'est la vie!
For now, we're off to study!
Sunday, November 27th, the first day of the season of Advent, BEGINS the new Christian year. So, if Advent begins a new year, it might be worth pausing for a moment to consider the a different way of living in time. How might our world be different if we lived in sacred rhythm? What if we opened and closed our days in prayer?Truly took a Sabbath? Avoided getting swept into holiday frenzy by living Advent? I believe that it would open us up to once again hear the truly good news of Christmas.
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