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The Rev. Dr. Casey Baggott
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Learning to Focus

Luke 1:46-55

4th Sunday of Advent - Year C

December 23, 2012

The Rev. Dr. Casey Baggott (UCC)

There are experts in nearly every field of human endeavor.  There are expert wine tasters, expert roof repairers, expert balloonists, expert heart surgeons, expert fly fishermen.  And I would gladly take the advice of these folks, should I find myself in need of it.  So when I was given advice some time ago that was said to come from an expert in a field I had never heard of, it gave me pause.  I hadn't known about the need for this expertise, but here it is.  An expert stringer of pearls is said to offer this advice: "Pearls should be restrung once a year, and if you wear them a lot, twice a year."  That's good advice, I guess, though I don't happen to have pearls valuable enough to worry about restringing.

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The Rev. Dr. Wiley Stephens
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Uncluttering

Luke 3:1-6

Advent 2 - Year C

December 06, 2009

The Rev. Dr. Wiley Stephens (UMC)

Christmas is a time for cluttering.  For most of us, our calendars are already filled, and yet we find more things pushing themselves upon us.  Be honest, most us know that our lives, our homes, our schedules, our world is already over stuffed and here we bring out more stuff.  When we begin to decorate, boxes are pulled out from the attic, the basement, a closet or maybe from all these places.   As we begin to unpack the decorations, they bring out with them so many memories.  But in order to find a place to put them, we have to rearrange some of the things that are already out in our homes during the year.  Most of our homes already have things filling the shelves, the tabletops, and the cabinets, and here comes more.

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