Amy Secrist

Tag: Christ

  • A Sacramental

    It is Advent and I am cleaning out the desk. I find expired coupons, obsolete proofs of purchase, useless how-to manuals. Beneath unopened instructional cd’s and old, unframed photos a gem is gleaming and I open it: “May Christ and all the angels linger long in September’s slanting light; gathering around your nebulous charity that once…

  • Of Food and Grace

    I love that Jesus is fearful. He climbs the mountain and sits down. The needy crowd follows him and sits at his feet waiting and he heals them, speaks of their suffering, tells his disciples his heart is sick. He fears they will collapse for lack of food. Could he assuage their hunger as he heals their…

  • Advent’s Beginning

    Today is the second day of Advent, a holy season of anticipation, preparation, and by the end, we hope, a readiness. It is easy to get caught in a whirlwind of perfectionism in which we strive to meet unrealistic expectations of our own making or those of others.  It is even easier to strive and then…