Chaplain Dave's Newsletter

Search This Blog

50 million dead

January 22, 2012

Get link
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Estimated 50 million dead children. 39th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. Is this really what we want? Really?

Get link
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Light in the darkness

On a cold Christmas Eve in an ancient land in a cold stone building, built many hundreds of years ago one small candle shown out to light the surrounding darkness. It was Christmas Eve. And thousands packed the magnificent cathedral of Ely to join with the gifted voices of the choirs of this Christian community to praise that vital event of the birth of the Messiah. Here was no generic holiday celebration. Thousands brave the cold of this unheated but beautiful building to join in worship, thanksgiving, and reflection of the beginning of the most significant event to shape human destiny: the birth of a redeemer. It was humbling to be a small part of that assembly.

A Rose is Fallen

The Reedy's and the Lester's have inhabited the Appalachian Mountains for hundreds of years. Near the town of Richlands Virginia, where my father was raised and where my mother met my father, rises a small creek that meanders its way through Southwest Virginia into Tennessee and past the Kmart where my mother worked and retired. It is along this creek, Reedy Creek, that my favorite place to run is found, the Kingsport Greenbelt. It was here that I gave my mother her last rose. I had collected one perfect blossom from her graveside as we laid her to rest at the foot of "her mountain" in Tazewell Virginia, where she was born and raised. I committed that rose to the waters of Reedy Creek as the day before we had committed her body to rest in the ground at the foot of those enduring mountains to await the promised resurrection of our Lord.
My mother passed away on Sept 13th. She went quietly and gently and I am thankful for that.
There is a tradition in my family t…

Powered by Blogger