Archways November 2023

When many retailers took down their Halloween decorations on November 1, they immediately put Christmas trees up, hung the garland and lights, and encouraged us to buy, buy, buy. In the retail world it’s been Christmas since Halloween. In the Church, we say “not so fast”, as we take our time getting to Christmas by way of the 4 Sundays of Advent. The older I get, the more I appreciate this time of slowing down that the Church offers to contrast the hurry of the holiday season

God Doing a New Thing…Most of us grew up hearing the saying that the only thing certain in life is death and taxes, which was originally attributed to Benjamin Franklin as he wrote to a friend about the new Constitution of the United States of America. I don’t know if Franklin was 100% right about that, but the saying taught us to expect change as a part of life.

It’s been a long time since I read or watched “Alice in Wonderland”, but one of my favorite quotes is:
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a…Color?

Susan Stewart shared the children’s moment in the July 23 worship service. She showed a puzzle she had done where she had to find the names of Crayola crayon colors. In the puzzle were colors such as shamrock, eggplant, and fuzzy wuzzy. All these years of
thinking that fuzzy wuzzy was a bear, we find out that it’s also a color. Who knew that
colors could have such interesting names and what happened to red, blue, green and
yellow? Susan made the point that even when so much is changing, God stays the same. Thank goodness for that!