While I meditate, I enjoy the gift of service that others freely, joyously, unselfishly share with me this time of year:
Patricia Rhoton, Pastor White, Afton Stewart, Rebecca George, Rex Ennis, David White, Andrea White, Madison Price, Bill Phillips, Earline Price, William Phillips, Mary Ellen Elkins, Sarah Klepper LeRoy, Tammy Lyons, Terry George, Chad Hill, Chancel Choir, St. Andrew's Choir, Higher Sounds Handbells, ushers and Sue Livesay.
The Joy Gift Service of Nine Lessons and Carols.
Flutes like angels singing in the balcony. Violin and piano duet like a heavenly stream or waterfall. Rearranged hymns. Solos that go so low and so high, I'm flushed with envy.
Raising money for the Christmas Joy Offering, 50 percent which goes to the Presbyterian Board of Pensions and 50 percent which goes to the Presbyterian racial ethnic schools and colleges (per the General Assembly Mission Council handout).
Teaching traditions.
Christmas versus/and other family-based holidays.
Sometimes, caught up in the noise and haste of modern life, I forget that family and friends are all that matters.
That's why these moments of meditation are important.
Otherwise, I'd get lost in the international games we play, that move millions and billions around like faceless chips on a gambling table.
We can still do that, but let's get to know each other before we take risks with our neighbours' lives.
Let us pray...
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