A New Year’s Prayer for the Blessing of Calendars, Clocks, Watches and Devices that Measure Time Spirit of the Ages, you live outside of time yet can be found within each moment, we ask your blessing onulln the gift of time. At the beginning of 2012, we ask a blessing for… Read More »A New Year’s Prayer
Over the last two weeks, holiday greetings and good wishes have arrived in Christmas cards, letters, and by email. I always enjoy hearing from friends during this time of the year and learning how life has unfolded for them since they last wrote. In the midst of all the greetings… Read More »Light in the Darkness ~ Happy Holidays!
It had been a long day. After the morning service, there was a special program at church. That was followed by a meeting and a couple of hospital visits. Not surprisingly, the evening service was not well attended. It was the Sunday before Christmas and people were simply busy with… Read More »Keeping Vigil
Sermon for December 11, 2011 Central Congregational United Church of Christ, Atlanta The Rev. Louis F. Kavar, Ph.D. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania. But I’ve lived in a number of different parts of the country: Pittsburgh, Morgantown, West Virginia, Miami, Tucson, and St. Louis. Since May, my home has… Read More »John the Baptist
It was early Sunday morning. I sat in the general area of the church where I’m usually to be found. Bleary eyed, I looked passed the sanctuary and out the plate glass windows to the trees now bare in late autumn. I may have looked like I was in some… Read More »Growing Up Poor – Memories from My Mother
As I entered the church for Sunday morning’s service, I noticed about a dozen people gathered around a large display. As I moved closer, I recognized the cloth in front of them: it was a panel from the Names Project, also known as the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The Names Project… Read More »World AIDS Day
As we gather around this table, we pause to give thanks: For the gift of life that enables us to be here today; For kindness and love shown to us by others; For the wonder of our planet that surrounds us with beauty and bounty; For hope that goodness will… Read More »Blessing for Thanksgiving Dinner
We scheduled the evening a couple of weeks in advance of the date. Having visited with our next door neighbors a few times, we planned an evening out for dinner. The plan was simple: they’d come over and we’d drive to an ethnic neighborhood for authentic Chinese food. Having moved… Read More »Thanksgiving
