Become the salt in your surroundings and watch your life change. Seek to flavor the needs of others with your salt and watch, as Isaiah promised the Israelites, “your light break forth like the dawn.” (Read On)

...except the one person who may be desperate to hear, or benefit greatly from what your assigned reading TODAY has to say. (Read On)

The events of Zebulun and Naphtali prophesied by Isaiah relate to our lives today in many ways. Let us remind ourselves of our own experiences of darkness, where the Lord’s light came to shine on us. (Read On)

As lectors, we can develop “leprous spots” on our minds and hearts that diminish our delivery of God’s word to our listeners . . . (Read On)

When someone says to us after our reading, "Great Job!" or "You really nailed it up there," these accolades can be dangerous to our health as a lector when we bask in them too much . . . (Read On)

... for its beginning, not its ending... In the secular world, Christmas ends on December 26th. Trees are thrown out to the curbs, people rush back to the stores to return unwanted gifts, and business-as-usual gets back on motion that make the celebration of the birth of Christ officially over.