Daily Archives: 12/25/2009

(Community Matters) from our dear friend, the Rev Faith Bledsoe

Dear people of St. Francis,

The age of these old bones prevents me from traveling to be with you, but let me see if I can’t tell the story you’ve asked about. I remember that night. It was cold. Folks had been coming into the city for days. The Romans had decided to count people. I’m not sure why, but then they did a lot of things without telling the rest of us why.

I lived in Bethlehem then – a small town next to Jerusalem. I lived there with my husband and 5 children – 4 boys and 1 girl. My husband owned one of the local inns in town, where folks could come and rent a place to sleep for the night. That night, we doubled and tripled sleeping space, even opening the courtyard. There wasn’t a roof over the courtyard, but the wall and the gate kept out any dangers. Continue reading →

Merry Christmas from Steven & Eugene . . . and the godkids

Shaun Holifield, Luke Hayes, Melissa Henderson, Steven, Nico Selby, Eugene, Cameron Lockley, Ben Knaplund and Austin Knaplund    (not in picture: Lauren Mayes)

photo: Matt Rainwaters

(Community Matters) My brother-in-law, Craig Tomlinson, sent this pic from out their front door (Tulsa, OK this am)

(Community Matters) The first of David’s five stones that may eventually take the Goliath down

David only needed the first

(Community Matters) Just finished Michael Crichton’s Pirate Latitudes

I quite enjoyed.  I hadn’t read a silly little novel in too long

“Hunter, you son of an English mongrel bitch.  Lavasseur, you son of a French farmer and his favorite sheep . . . ”

“Sanson, you French pig!  Hunter, you English pox of a sheep!”

While Steven reads French deconstructivist philosophy (says it all)