Author: Kristin Fontaine

“This year I am facing a change in that fundamental part of my life. Mom died back in April and even then, I wondered what the holiday season would be like without her.”

“Unlike many of the psalms that ask God for deliverance, or that call down punishments down upon the wicked, this psalm continuously pleads for the strength to resist wickedness in its many and varied forms.”

“Having a focus that was outside of myself filled the waiting minutes but didn’t distract me from the moment that I was needed to take action.”

“The road can’t keep me from having an accident or doing something ill-advised, but it will not vanish from underneath me just because my headlights are no longer on it.”

“We have a drive to make art, to tell stories, and to develop rituals that goes back to our beginning.”

“In some ways it is my own ‘Communion of Saints’; a place where I go to relive memories of past joys.”

“I carried the weight of what I thought other people thought about me for years. I don’t know at what moment I realized that I didn’t have to carry the weight of the (mostly imaginary) expectations of others any more. Once I did it was a revelation.”

“Given that it is flawed humans that carry the faith from the time to Jesus to the ever-moving-present, it is something of a miracle that the message of Jesus still has power to speak to new generations.”

“The people, by their presence in the stories, also serve to remind the readers that the ‘named’ characters weren’t the only actors in the unfolding drama of the relationship between God and humanity.”