Epiphany 1A/Baptism of Our Lord
Just after Christmas, my family and I decamped to a rented house near Yosemite. We packed for cold weather and had grand dreams of stomping around in snow with a granddaughter in a puffy snow suit and cute mittens, but instead we got rain. And lots of it… y’all know what I mean! An atmospheric … Read the rest
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I’m a California native, so I’ve known a lifetime of water scarcity. Which is not actually that different from the experience of Jesus’ followers living in the Galilean desert. And yet, there were six stone water jars, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Glory… God’s glory is like that!
We live in a grape-growing region, where what limited … Read the rest
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It’s so good to be back with you! Over the holidays, my husband John and I spent a few days in Cambria on the Central Coast. We fell in love anew with the sparkling sand and rugged beachheads and windswept bluffs, which is generally excitement enough for we inland residents. But it happened that we were in San Simeon just … Read the rest
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So it’s a week to be an Oregonian, no? I have to love it when our gas-pumping habits make the national news. On Thursday I woke up to the Washington Post headline that read “I don’t even know HOW: Some Oregonians panic about the new self-service gas law.”
Great. The rest of the country already … Read the rest
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