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This week we look at Luke 3:7-18, the story of John the Baptizer in the wilderness. John was capable of a really good rant on occasion - when is that a holy thing?

Today we  turn from Sunday's gospel to the story of two elders whom God invited into our story of Incarnation, Zechariah and Elizabeth, the aged parents of John the Baptist. This imagined monologue is based on Luke 1:5-25. Might we find some of our own stories in Zechariah's?

This week we look Luke 3:1-6, in which we meet John the Baptizer, who spoke of a level road for God to come into our lives. That level road becomes a place we can walk with God through our highs and our lows. 

This week we look Luke 3:1-6, in which we meet John the Baptizer, who's mission it was to prepare people to receive Jesus. This is still our mission...

This week we look Luke 3:1-6, in which we meet John the Baptizer. We're told the Word of God came to him in the wilderness... when the Word of God comes to you, look out! God has work for us to do. 

This week we look Luke 3:1-6. Luke begins his story of Jesus' life, ministry, death and resurrection by rooting it in a specific time and place, among specific people. God's Word is always universal - yet we experience it specifically in our own ways. How has God's love been made real to you? 

This week we look Luke 21:25-36, as we begin the season of Advent. It always begins with foreboding, gloom and doom... yet we are the People of Good News. How might we live alert and ready for God's inbreaking life, here and now as well as then and later? 

Today we reflect on gratitude as a ground for joy - and my gratitude for this Water Daily community of readers and now listeners. 

And there is a poem by Denise Levertov. Happy Thanksgiving!

This week we look Luke 21:25-36, as we begin the season of Advent. Jesus invites his followers to be on guard against all that draws them away from God's love. How might we, like fencers, take position of defensive peacefulness that allows us to pivot toward that love?

This week we look Luke 21:25-36, as we begin the season of Advent. Jesus uses the changing of seasons as a metaphor for sign of the coming of God's reign. How do we see God coming into our lives.