Bits of Being

thoughts on life, faith, family….and, yes, just learning to "be"

Category: Spiritual Resources for Personal Use or in Group Settings

  • Advent 2020 – Day 12 Disorder

    Post Views = 509Today’s word is DISORDER. That might surprise you. Isn’t order good, not disorder? Yet I don’t think Jesus’ birth was orderly. In fact, it was all rather chaotic. It certainly brought disorder to Mary’s life, an unmarried teenage girl who was betrothed to Joseph. This wasn’t what she had planned. It brought disorder to…

  • Advent 2020 – Day 11 A Poem

    Post Views = 532Enjoy this Christmas poem by Wendell Berry today. Remembering that it happened once,We cannot turn away the thought,As we go out, cold, to our barnsToward the long night’s end, that weOurselves are living in the worldIt happened in when it first happened,That we ourselves, opening a stall(A latch thrown open countless timesBefore),…