{"id":615,"date":"2020-12-23T14:33:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T19:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/?p=615"},"modified":"2020-12-23T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T19:33:41","slug":"reflection-from-sarah-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/reflection-from-sarah-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection from Sarah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Mail.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Mail.jpg 413w, https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Mail-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christmas Mail<br>By Ted Kooser<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cards in each mailbox,<br>angel, manger, star and lamb,<br>as the rural carrier,<br>driving the snowy roads,<br>hears from her bundles,<br>the plaintive bleating of sheep,<br>the shuffle of sandals,<br>the clopping of camels.<br>At stop after stop,<br>she opens the little tin door<br>and places deep in the shadows<br>the shepherd and wise men,<br>the donkeys lank and weary,<br>the cow who chews and muses.<br>And from her Styrofoam cup,<br>white as a star and perched<br>on the dashboard, leading her<br>ever into the distance,<br>there is a hint of hazelnut,<br>and then a touch of myrrh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This poem by Ted Kooser reminds me how Christmas can bring extra meaning to even the routine things I do. The poem describes a mail carrier delivering Christmas cards and \u2018stop after stop\u2019 describes the ordinariness of her daily routine. The Christmas story in the images on the cards brings the divine to the day-to-day. The dashboard, with the white cup leading her, like the star, toward to the blessed holiday, flavored with hazelnut, then a hint of myrrh; one of the gifts brought by a king to the Christ child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During this Christmas week may you see in the ordinary, day to day things that you do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">folding laundry,<br>printing billing statements,<br>delivering meals,<br>shoveling snowy driveways and walks,<br>mopping floors,<br>passing medications,<br>answering the phone,<br>answering call lights,<br>tending lonely hearts,<br>the presence of the divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe fullness of joy is to behold God in everything.\u201d \u2013 Julian of Norwich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHanging laundry on the line offers you the chance to fly prayer flags disguised<br>as bath towels and underwear.\u201d \u2013 Barbara Taylor Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Mail-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Mail-2.jpg 555w, https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Mail-2-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Reflection by Sarah McEvoy, CPE Intern<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas MailBy Ted Kooser Cards in each mailbox,angel, manger, star and lamb,as the rural carrier,driving the snowy roads,hears from her bundles,the plaintive bleating of sheep,the shuffle of sandals,the clopping of camels.At stop after stop,she opens the little tin doorand places deep in the shadowsthe shepherd and wise men,the donkeys lank and weary,the cow who chews &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/reflection-from-sarah-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflection from Sarah<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}