Epiphany Stories of Sharing Our Light
During Advent, the four weeks leading up to Christmas, we invited members of the congregation to share their "dreams for a world made new" (see below). Advent was a season of dreaming, longing, waiting, preparing for the light of Christ to shine. If the four weeks of Advent were about waiting for the light, Epiphany (which from the Greek means "shine" or "appear") is about celebrating the light. The first lection for Epiphany, from Isaiah 60, captures the mood of the season: "Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you."
Therefore in Epiphany we have shifted from "dreaming of a world made new" to "sharing our light with the world." Each week in Epiphany (the four weeks following Christmas) we have asked different members or friends of the congregation to share how they are sharing the light in their own lives. These are their stories:
Amir Venegas
Ghani Perera
Michael Oswalt
Advent Dreams of a World Made New
Each week during Advent, the four-week period leading up to Christmas, we have asked different members and friends of the congregation to share their dream of a "World Made New," inspired by the words of the prophet Isaiah, who imagined a time when “they shall beat their swords into plowshares… nation shall not lift up sword against nation… the wolf shall live with the lamb… the wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom… the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped… the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with singing… they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away… and the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD”
Click the links below to read our own God-inspired dreams.
Diana Bruce
Cheryl Krehbiel
Kelsey Krehbiel
Jeff Francisco
Gene Stossel
Charles Briggs
