I recently read something about the kinds of Christmas that are celebrated. There’s secular Christmas that starts very close to Thanksgiving and ends on the 25th and then there’s Christmas that starts on Advent and then Christmas as we define it in the Christmas season and the debates about whether it ends on epiphany or…
Tag: The Good Shepherd
Follow the Shepherd, not the Stranger
It’s Good Shepherd Sunday and of course I celebrate this day as the anniversary of the start of this blog, which is my little way to share my spiritual journey. God is so good and can give so many different interpretations of this Gospel, and I praise Him that His Spirit allowed me to discern…
An Epiphany epiphany: If God is all merciful, why does hell exist?
All God asks is relationship and to seek Him. There are no qualifiers, this is a binary decision: Seek me or don’t seek me. If you seek Him, you know you are sick, and the Divine Physician will heal you, either in this life of the next. He will not abandon you. The extent to which you receive the fullness of joy in this life, how “abundantly” you live, relies on your discernment and participation in the divine life of the church.