Christmas-Ephiphany Letter
Advent ~ Christmas ~ Epiphany Greetings As 2024 winds down, I’m thinking about highs and lows for our family, for our country and for our world. The Franciscan friar Father Richard Rohr says “we daringly believe that God’s presence was poured into a single human being, so that humanity and divinity can be seen to be operating as one in him.. . .Through his incarnated presence, Jesus offered the world a living example of fully embodied love that emerged out of ordinary, limited life situations.” So my wish as I reflect on this year is for us to be reminded of that embodied love, often from people who show up in our lives, which more often than not is more ordinary than the curated Christmas card collage or social media picture. Our year: the curated and the ordinary. Last December, we went to Fredericksburg to honor the retirement of our dear friend and minister, Patti. There, the girls and I shed a lot of tears for what we missed and the times that had passed. Beca...
