Dec 15, 2021 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris Waiting. It is one of the central themes of Advent — that pregnant pause as Mary and Joseph wait for the arrival of their child. It is the intervening time between the articulation and the fulfillment of Christ’s promises to us all. Simeon’s song...
Dec 8, 2021 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris What is it like to have speech restored after a prolonged period of complete silence? A few years back, a medical issue required that I undergo extensive jaw surgery. For weeks, I could talk only with very careful and laborious effort. This...
Dec 1, 2021 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris I don’t know if you have noticed, but Christmas songs are about all you hear on the radio these days. Each of us no doubt has their list of favorites — those songs that illicit all the various emotions of the season. Likewise, Luke’s Gospel...
Nov 22, 2021 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris I come from sturdy people. I say this, not in a spirit of bragging, but simply as a statement of fact. They were blue collar folk — farmers and ranchers, mostly. They knew the satisfaction of a hard day’s work. They knew about tilling ground,...
Nov 17, 2021 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris “Dear Lord…Thank you, Lord…Praise the Lord…Lord, have mercy.” To refer to the Divine as “Lord” is a rather common part of the prayer vocabulary for people of faith. What does it mean, however, to call Jesus, Lord? This Sunday marks a...
Nov 10, 2021 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris “Are you listening to me?” After being together for more than two decades, my wife has gotten pretty good at reading my facial expressions. That said, I’m afraid that the glazed over eyes and far-away look probably gave me way pretty easily. ...
