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Sabbath Devotional :: Dawn
It’s a new year, a time of new beginnings. I enjoy setting goals and creating plans for accomplishing them. I feel pretty ambitious at this time of year and can sometimes overwhelm myself with my idealistic goals. As I have gotten older, I have learned to temper my goal setting to suit the reality of being me. No matter how ambitious or simple my New Year resolutions, I am guided by a reassuring hope that positive things are just around the corner. It is a new dawn, a new day, and I am drawn to the promise of light. The “Spirit giveth light to every [person] that cometh into the…
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Sabbath Devotional :: Light on the Path
Everybody has a superpower. Mine is pretty straightforward, and it can best be described as an ability to see around corners. So the last few months have been incredibly disorienting for me, because not only am I unable to see around corners, I cannot even seem to see five feet in front of me. And frankly, I’ve been struggling with this. During those same months, I, like many of you, have also been experiencing a very unusual degree of isolation. Some of that isolation is straightforward — my abundant and complex life narrowed overnight. But there is another layer. I am discovering that many more people than I had previously…
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Sabbath Devotional :: Lead, Kindly Light
My grandpa passed away a couple weeks ago. Of course, given the current circumstances, we couldn’t gather as a family to mourn his passing and celebrate his life (though we did “gather” via Zoom). But over these past few weeks I’ve felt comfort from the words of his favorite hymn, which have been playing on an almost perpetual loop in my mind: Lead, kindly Light, amid th’encircling gloom;Lead thou me on!The night is dark, and I am far from home;Lead thou me on!Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to seeThe distant scene — one step enough for me. For reasons both global and personal, I have felt almost…
