This past weekend, Mother’s Day brought up any number of emotions for so many of us. Perhaps joy, maybe grief or disappointment, perhaps hope. I led the morning service and gave the sermon at the North Short Unitarian Church outside Chicago, and offered the following words for mothers and the other nurturers in our lives. […]
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Holidays as a time of joy, or stress?
Advent is a season rife with expectation, whether you expect presents under a tree, the celebration of the birth of Jesus, or if you simply expect waves of emotions, joy, anger, sadness, stress. It’s not an easy time. Time was when I would have shrugged off the season’s less happy emotions. I think that was […]