Basin & Towel

Tentative: Kid-Focused Gathering
Note: Details TBA

Host: T&LR
Facilitate: n/a
Note: Christmas Party

Disney’s Narnia Chronicles: LWW Movie opens December 9th. More info at Narnia Web

A meditative liturgy for the evening - Saturday November 5 and December 3 at 7:00pm at All Saints. This is time of worship built around music, prayer, readings and stillness, led by Gord Johnson and Larry Campbell. Be warned ahead of time: there is no communion, no sermon, no coffee hour, no big social focus… just an opportunity come away into the stillness, move into a space of deep openness to the Spirit of God, and then go quietly into the evening’s darkness.
St. Benedict’s Table: Gatherings

Just in case the last day or two you’ve felt like all has not been right in the universe, I think I may know why. Jesus has been in time out. Apparently the Jesus in our nativity hit my two year old, so he informed me that he put Jesus in time out. And it ’s a long one. At the end of day two and there’s no sign of parole for the Savior of the world. He gets his theology from his dad… 

Makes me think of when my daughter was three (she’s six now) and we were approaching Christmas. Clever girl that she is, she had figured out that a successful way to extend bedtime was to ask theological questions. So she asked, “How big is God?” Flippantly I replied, “So big. Bigger than me, bigger than Daddy, bigger than our house, bigger than the world.” (How do you accurately answer that one?) Anyway, my girl was silent. Thoughtful. Then she said, “I think I like Jesus better than God.” Curious of course, I asked why, “Because He’s my size.” Now I am silent. Thoughtful. 

She had no idea the depth of truth in her words. She, in her wonderfully childlike way, had summed up the Incarnation. I love it. And I love Him. I love Him for willingly entering this world so that we would know that He knows from first hand experience what it’s like to be us. I can never say in the midst of one of my inevitable temper tantrums, “But He just doesn’t understand!” He does, and I find comfort and hope in that.