The Daily Sip will resume January 4
Charles is away for a few days rest. The Sip will resume January 4. May you have a peaceful and restful few days. Charles
Month: December 2015
creativity- a reasonable response
So what do we do now? The culture in which we live is packing up Christmas into boxes already. Stores slash prices on Christmas nick nacs and many turn to the YMCA now as they wonder how their clothes became so miraculously tight in the past month. We drag out...
silence
Today is a day for fewer words. Today, the Word of God was made into flesh and emerged from the womb of a girl - a frightened little girl, who could just as easily have been executed. But She was not. Instead she is the most famous woman ever to...
Joseph
Today, for some strange reason, my heart is with Joseph. He just watched as things unfolded. How confusing it must have been. God must have given him some profound clues for him not to simply toss Mary to the law and find another, unblemished wife. Joseph must have been able...
sticky, real, Mary and Frank Sinatra-both
It is time to drill down. Go deeper. Really consider this God-man and that God chooses to become one though a frightened little girl in a nothing town on a dirt road to nowhere. Things are so lovely at Christmas. Everything is so charming. Colors are bright. Candy is sweet....
Sing your song!
And now we make our way towards God’s work. Now we hear our names called. Now we sing our song with Mary even in our deepest fears and darknesses. In the encounter between Mary and Elizabeth we have a meeting between great women who call each other’s names in great...
oops
So… the Christmas cake … the one which was supposed to sit and stew in Scotch for months on end, accidentally was cut into, by me, during the recent “Blizzard of 2015.” Or “of yesterday” were one to lack my delightful, dramatic flair. It was just sitting there, in the...
Advent’s Star, God’s foot
Skin so soft. What of the fragility of a God who would become a baby? What of a small foot, held by a teenager, kissed by three kings, licked by a goat in a stable, nailed to a tree later. Much later. What of God passing by the options? Shall...
God becoming man and getting some …awsome merchandise …which nobody misplaced
We are two weeks away from Christmas. It is at about this time of year that I begin to obsess about the three wise men. Or kings. Or Scientists. Or whatever they were. I suspect they were women. Or some were. Even in those days men just sit around getting...
suffering, and Peace on Earth
What would you think of a mother whose child was lost in a mall and who was aware of looking for said child but was also willing to check out eBay on her phone app for deals on the sofa set she has been wanting? Would you be annoyed? Outraged?...