Lent 2025: Gifts of the Dark Wood

Where do We Go from Here?

It was time to go tend to him. We had waited, waited, waited, in the agonizing depth of Sabbath-keeping stillness, bearing our grief...

Rev. Annie McMillan

Apr 204 min read

Do you remember the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special? The one from 1964. I love that movie- it’s the only Christmas movie that I...

Rev. Annie McMillan

Apr 134 min read

This morning’s theme is temptation and it’s not how we usually interpret it. In Gifts of the Dark Wood , temptation is not necessarily...

Rev. Annie McMillan

Apr 64 min read

Have you ever felt totally lost? Like where you are just isn’t working for you, it’s sapping everything but you have no idea what’s next?...

Rev. Annie McMillan

Mar 305 min read

Let’s start with a little bit of context to the scripture from the book of Job. Job is a good and Godly man, and then experiences a whole...

Rev. Annie McMillan

Mar 235 min read

Emptiness. This morning’s theme reminds me of the Christian analogy that a person has a “God-shaped hole” within them. I remember being...

Rev. Annie McMillan

Mar 165 min read

Throughout our lives, there are times when we find ourselves in what Dante and Rev. Eric Elnes refer to as the Dark Wood: a place of...

Rev. Annie McMillan

Mar 94 min read

In the first chapter of his book Gifts of the Dark Wood , Rev Eric Elnes writes that his “book is about seeing life through new eyes,...

Rev. Annie McMillan

Mar 53 min read