by Alexandra Kuykendall | Feb 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
One of those days. Ever have one? One of those days where your insecurities are flaring and you feel like a flag flapping in the wind, every gust snapping you back and forth with a crack that hurts? Yeah, me too. Today is one. And I’m not sure what to do about it. I...
by Alexandra Kuykendall | Dec 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
A Christmas Pageant for a Broken World Last night I stood in the wings, the kind created in a living room with a sheet held up by a cord as curtains delineating where the stage ended and the audience began. I watched kids in costumes with halos and crowns and robes...
by Alexandra Kuykendall | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today while I’m visiting the Great White North, my friend Annie Rim is visiting here again with some reflections on today’s Advent readings. You can find more of her writing at http://annierim.wordpress.com/. Today’s reading is John 3:16-21. The Denver Botanic...
by Alexandra Kuykendall | Dec 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Many Lights Today’s reading from 1 John 1:4-7 And we are writing this that our joy may be complete. 5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him...
by Alexandra Kuykendall | Dec 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
A Totally Imperfect Advent Part 2 So I set out to write every day about the daily readings for Advent that I’m following. And this weekend I failed. Last week’s theme for the readings centered on preparation. And this weekend I was preparing for Christmas...
by Alexandra Kuykendall | Dec 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today my friend Erin Schue is taking a risk and sharing her thoughts on our daily Advent readings here. My sister in mothering this is a story from her pre-mommy days. A story about being lost. ” Jesus said, “For a brief time still, the light is among you....
