Wholistic Living
What’s Up with Ascension?
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010Reader Question: Advent, as you note in your defining of the term, comes from the Latin “to arrive”. We as Christians anticipate the second arrival, or as we commonly say, second “coming”, of Christ while celebrating Christ’s first arrival. In Christ’s first arrival, God offered Her only Son to die for the sake of all [...]
Pondering the Myth of Balance
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010I have always been struck that Mary, the mother of Jesus, after learning that she was pregnant with the one whom many would later call to be the Messiah, somehow found time to “ponder these things in her heart.” Ponder! Who has time to ponder, especially in these days of pre-Christmas madness? It is very [...]
Being Taken on an Adventure
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010adventure (n.) early 13c., auenture ”that which happens by chance, fortune, luck,” from O.Fr. aventure (11c.) “chance, accident, occurrence, event, happening,” from L. adventura (res) ”(a thing) about to happen,” from adventurus, future participle of advenire ”to come to, reach, arrive at,” from ad- ”to” (see ad-) + venire ”to come” (see venue). Meaning developed through “risk/danger” (a trial of one’s chances) and “perilous undertaking” (early 14c.) and thence to [...]
