Reflections from Rick Lord on Leadership, Transformation, and Things That Keep Human Life Distinctively Human
In the Hymn “Once in David’s Royal City,” there comes this line: For he is our lifelong pattern: day by day like us he grew; he was little, weak, and helpless; tears and smiles like us he knew: and he feels for all our sadness, and he shares in all our gladness. “Our lifelong pattern” [...]
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Northern Virginia has been blanketed with a quiet and deep snow with some 16 to 20 inches by nightfall. It put me in the mood to work up Vince Guaraldi’s classic, Christmas Time Is Here, from an arrangement by Jason Vieaux. It’s not a flawless performance, but good enough for a snowy day. You can see [...]
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At our Advent Lessons and Carols last evening both the adult and children’s choir sang Elizabeth Poston’s carol, Jesus Christ the Apple Tree – a carol we’ve not heard at Holy Comforter in some time (thank you to Michael Painter for choosing it). Poston credits the poem to a New Englander named Joshua Smith (1784). [...]
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