by The Church @ HP | Jan 19, 2023 | Advent 2022
“Senses” to Cultivate During Christmas and All Seasons of Life I love the Christmas and holiday season for several reasons. Chief among them are the heightened senses and feelings of calm, slowing down my daily pace, and paying closer attention to people and things...
by The Church @ HP | Jan 19, 2023 | Advent 2022
Sensing the rituals of the season: Taste, touch, hear, smell, feel amid love, hope, joy, peace I love the rituals of Christmas – those holy pieces of life’s mysteries and memories and hopes, those things that slow us down so we can think about the big why of the...
by The Church @ HP | Jan 19, 2023 | Advent 2022
In thinking about our theme for Advent this year, how we use our senses in the way we experience this season, I was reminded of so many things that I experienced as a child. My childhood was spent in Venezuela until I was 10 years old. I was reminded of the smell of...
by The Church @ HP | Jan 19, 2023 | Advent 2022
It is fun to stop and think about how engaging all our senses brings Advent to life. You know what it is like to not stop and really taste your lunch but just go into auto pilot mode and spoon it in while you read emails, watch TV, or scroll on Facebook. Your spoon...
by The Church @ HP | Jan 19, 2023 | Advent 2022
“Touching and Feeling the Love” I call it the manger scene, but you may call it a nativity set. Today I remember the manger scene I grew up with. The stable, created by my dad, was made from smooth, split cherry limbs with a roof of prickly pine needles. With Mary,...
by The Church @ HP | Jan 19, 2023 | Advent 2022
In a special place within my treasure chest of memories I keep those of my childhood family Christmas. From the anchors of my grandparents Mamaw and Papaw, their nine offspring and spouses had generated 27 grandkids. Not all were yet born when I was 7 years old but...
