"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language" -- W. H. Auden

I think of myself as an artist – a poet – more than a preacher. I pray, in any case, that my love of language is evident in my published writing and public witnessing. Sunday’s message is inspired by the work of an actual American poet. Interestingly, not much of her art was published during her lifetime. After she died in 1886, her sister discovered a store of poems which eventually gained public attention in 1955 when the scholar Thomas H. Johnson published The Poems of Emily Dickinson.

The sermon is entitled: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers. The basic idea is that hope doesn’t just come from above (or beyond) us. It dwells within us too! I’ll say more when I see you.

Yours with Advent anticipation, Rev. Fredd

SERMON: Hope Is The Thing with Feathers, Rev. Fredd
SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 21:25-36 (NT p. 104)

свернуть