Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

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  • Living Grace

    Perhaps we avoid the Ascension, to keep Jesus present, in control. To avoid his command: that we love each other.

  • Jesus says that another advocate is coming — one that gives us the chance to live into our promise in the world.

  • The struggle we have, entering into this particular gospel, is to recognize just how much context can reshape our vision of it.

  • As a new year begins, we are drawn to being better than we are. Which is good. But above that is God’s love.

  • In reading the opening of the gospel of John on Christmas Day, we get a better sense of God’s vision for creation.

  • The Christmas story, of the birth of Jesus, we are offered a vision of hope for all, but especially for those in need.