Previously: Benches, Pageant, Logbook When I was a pastor, most of the month of December for me was about making sure that everyone else had a special and meaningful experience. I didn’t have to approach it primarily with that mindset, but that’s what I ended up doing. I tended to view the services, the music,Continue reading “Christmas Week: Home”
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First Week of Advent: Benches
It was built as a joint venture, a shared effort by three Girl Scouts seeking to achieve their Gold Award. They planned and organized for its construction together. I’m sure that if you found the right people to ask, you could learn more about who specifically did what, but I don’t know why anyone wouldContinue reading “First Week of Advent: Benches”
Ghosts
Moving from one stage of life to another is never a clean break. We expand our families, we change jobs, we change communities. We may move three states away or from one company to another. But whatever our complete body of work in life has been, including our hangups, our spiritual scabs, our grudges, theContinue reading “Ghosts”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 