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And living with questions is a necessary part of our faith. Did you know that Jesus was questioned more than eighty times in the Gospels? Our questions remind us that a questioning faith is a living faith. When our faith has run out of questions, it becomes not faith but dogma.
The Psalmist
James Lilliefors
Autumn died in technicolor all around us. Bright yellows and reds afire, burnished oranges and rusty greens painted the leaves that floated from the branches, collected in the grass. That vibrant odor of dying things, so particular to fall, creased the blades of air that cut through our clothing and made us tense our muscles and widen our eyes. Nowhere does death occur so spectacularly, so proudly, as it does in New England in October. The sun, broken free of the storm clouds that had threatened this morning, turned windowpanes into hard squares of white light and washed the brick row houses that surrounded the tiny yard in a smoked tint that matched the darker leaves.
Gone, Baby, Gone
Dennis Lehane
Jesus is the true light---translated ‘morning star’, ‘Dayspring’, ‘radiant dawn’, rising sun’---who shatters the darkness of sin and disease. His light brings warmth to cold hearts.
The History of Christmas
Wyatt North
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