Twilight Twitches

Dear Family,
Here I am once again, thinking about something that, AS I WRITE, has not happened yet. With God’s help, by the time you read this Twitch, we will have had a wonderful Sixtieth Anniversary Dinner.

Next week I’ll be sure and thank all those who made it happen, but I especially know I will be grateful to Connie Reed and Liz Calhoun for arranging the venue and keeping track of all those names with their filets or salmons.

Dear Family,
At the end of today’s Feast of the Baptism of Jesus, we entered into “Ordinary Time.”

Before I go any farther, let me linger a little in Christmas time to make a special point of thanking our parishioners who made the place just beautiful. Those decorations helped us remember the birth of the Savior, without which none of us would be here in the first place.

To Ann Murry, Sue and Scott Martinez, Charlotte Newbury and super plant maintenance supervisor and #1 Christmas fan in all the earth, Patricio Diaz-Pizzaro, I offer our thanks. The red and gold comes down after today’s celebration and we begin a period of “Ordinary Time.” The color is green, the color of hope.

Dear Family,
Here we are in the first Twitch for 2020. As I said above, Happy New Year!

The change of year, indeed the change of the decade gets me thinking about time. What have I done with mine? What do I want to do with the time I have left?

Somewhere in the early eighties, I remember thinking that in 2006 I would be 65. I couldn’t imagine what being 65 would feel like, much less getting to the year.

In those days the letter was called Midnight Musings because I stayed up later. As I aged the midnights became twilights.

...A Child is born, a Son is Given, ...and He shall reign for ever and ever. King of kings, and Lord of lords...

Dear Family,
My heartfelt wish is that over the last week you heard some version of Handel’s Messiah that helped you recall the depth of the “Us” you see in my header. “Us” is US. We celebrate Jesus’ coming in time nearly two millennia ago.

But fast forward, and realize that the same Jesus has come and is constantly coming to and for “Us.” He is present in each moment, for “Us.”