It has been a long time since I got pencil crayons as a present. These “chubby” pencils make me feel like a kid when I hold them. They take me back to the feeling of drawing and doodling for just the fun of it. 
I love Christmas music.I like listening listening to it, but I especially love playing Christmas music for people. This is the first year in 10 years I don’t have 4 Sundays to lead music at The Commons for Advent (the church season leading up to Christmas). To fill the gap I’m going to post some videos of the songs I would have picked each week. You can think of it as “Old Reverend Randell’s Christmas Special!” Hopefully my internet can handle all the uploading.
You can watch the videos on my Facebook Page or on my YouTube playlist.
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There is a sacredness to silence.
One of the most profound spiritual practices I have engaged with over the last year has been silence. For my prayer time I light a candle and just sit quietly as a way of being in God’s presence. No requests, no agenda, and lots of grace if my mind is too busy or loud.
I have been told practicing 10 minutes of silence a day is a good idea, but if that is too daunting that starting with 5 or even 1 minutes is great. At first for me it took my mind 10 minutes to just shut up, so I would practice 20 minutes of silence. Now I find I can often enter into silence a little quicker. I must admit that I don’t take time for silence nearly often enough but it has become something that I am more and more comfortable with.
Sometimes this prayer practice is just silence. Other times there is a sense of being aware of God with me. Some times a picture or thought comes to me that feels like it is not my own. There is a emotional resonance that makes me aware of God in a different way.
Lightning a candle and sitting in simple silence (or profound silence) have become a holy place for me.
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I have chronic pain. Sometimes I’m not even sure which part of my body hurts. Today it is my wrist. But it is also my neck, my elbow my heel and my back (basically one whole side of my body). I have seen so many Doctors and physiotherapists. Everyone always knows what is immediately wrong with me, they zero in on one little part of my body and order lots of tests. I’m left advocating for the rest of my body. I don’t have anything profound to say about this because pain is exhausting. It takes up all the mental and physical space.
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