Comments on: Dec. 25: Christmas for the Generations http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-25-christmas-for-the-generations/ Advent and Lenten devotions by Goshen College students, faculty and staff Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Ruth http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-25-christmas-for-the-generations/#comment-1836 Ruth Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:22:38 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1206#comment-1836 Those family times you described are priceless moments and a time when generations make connections..So I'm guessing you were in the uncle rerun viewing group... God strategically placed Simeon and Anna in the advent story. It is inspiring to know that even in older years we can still be entrusted with important assignments in the Kingdom of God. Thanks for highlighting the significance of crossing generational boundaries and sharing respect and honor. We can be enriched by our differences. Those family times you described are priceless moments and a time when generations make connections..So I’m guessing you were in the uncle rerun viewing group…
God strategically placed Simeon and Anna in the advent story. It is inspiring to know that even in older years we can still be entrusted with important assignments in the Kingdom of God.
Thanks for highlighting the significance of crossing generational boundaries and sharing respect and honor. We can be enriched by our differences.

]]> By: Tess Hoffman http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-25-christmas-for-the-generations/#comment-1835 Tess Hoffman Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:02:12 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1206#comment-1835 I read the Time magazine cover article on this topic recently, and as a person closer to the older side of this topic than the younger side, I would like to add something to what President Brenneman has said. Your Goshen College devotions have among your internet readers many people my age and older. President Brenneman exhorts his readers to do some sort of outreach to the older people. I would like to see the older people do some sort of outreach to the younger, because I think we have to take some of the responsibility for this gap. How can we, who were young during the Vietnam era, be so indifferent to people who are young during the era of Iraq, Afghanistan, industrial, economic and political dishonesty and indifference, global warming and environmental disaster, issues which have so much impact on the young? If we have any quality of life at all at our age - and many of us enjoy comfort, even luxury, in our retirement years - we have profited to a certain extent from those very practices which now help to impoverish the young. We need to reach out, volunteer, get involved on college campuses - demonstrate to the young that we are not just going to live like gilded lillies of the field, but are still interested in social and political justice. If we look like the "enemy," perhaps it is because we are. I read the Time magazine cover article on this topic recently, and as a person closer to the older side of this topic than the younger side, I would like to add something to what President Brenneman has said. Your Goshen College devotions have among your internet readers many people my age and older. President Brenneman exhorts his readers to do some sort of outreach to the older people. I would like to see the older people do some sort of outreach to the younger, because I think we have to take some of the responsibility for this gap. How can we, who were young during the Vietnam era, be so indifferent to people who are young during the era of Iraq, Afghanistan, industrial, economic and political dishonesty and indifference, global warming and environmental disaster, issues which have so much impact on the young? If we have any quality of life at all at our age – and many of us enjoy comfort, even luxury, in our retirement years – we have profited to a certain extent from those very practices which now help to impoverish the young. We need to reach out, volunteer, get involved on college campuses – demonstrate to the young that we are not just going to live like gilded lillies of the field, but are still interested in social and political justice. If we look like the “enemy,” perhaps it is because we are.

]]> By: Joy Fors http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-25-christmas-for-the-generations/#comment-1834 Joy Fors Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:57:50 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1206#comment-1834 This reflection is so helpful to me this day after Christmas. As a seventy year old mom and grandmother I am especially praying for ways to bridge "gaps" between my 15 year old grandsonm who has a special place in my heart, and myself. You have helped me realize how the Scriptures teach us, as always, a way of wisdom and compassion, of insight and understanding.and produce faith and hope when there are large questions, both personal and universal. Thank you. This reflection is so helpful to me this day after Christmas. As a seventy year old mom and grandmother I am especially praying for ways to bridge “gaps” between my 15 year old grandsonm who has a special place in my heart, and myself. You have helped me realize how the Scriptures teach us, as always, a way of wisdom and compassion, of insight and understanding.and produce faith and hope when there are large questions, both personal and universal. Thank you.

]]> By: Susan Garboden http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-25-christmas-for-the-generations/#comment-1833 Susan Garboden Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:50:16 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1206#comment-1833 Jim, Thanks for a fresh and meaningful perspective on this scripture. (I'm now remembering three uncles snoring with their mouths open on the couch after a big lunch, while my generation played a loud game of "Pit" at the table.) It's good for me to have a reminder to connect with young persons who cross my path today! Jim, Thanks for a fresh and meaningful perspective on this scripture. (I’m now remembering three uncles snoring with their mouths open on the couch after a big lunch, while my generation played a loud game of “Pit” at the table.) It’s good for me to have a reminder to connect with young persons who cross my path today!

]]> By: Elizabeth S.O. http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-25-christmas-for-the-generations/#comment-1832 Elizabeth S.O. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:06:19 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1206#comment-1832 In the first paragraph, you nailed my family's Christmas tradition! I can just see each of the things you mentioned happening in my relatives' house on Christmas Day. But, more importantly, your devotional gave me a new insight into this familiar Scripture passage. I must have heard the story of Simeon and Anna a hundred times, yet never had I thought of how these two bridged any generation gap that may have existed at the time. I myself don't really experience the generation gap - most of my friends belong to different generations - but it's still important for me to remember what you mentioned in this reflection. Thanks to you and all others who wrote reflections this Advent/Christmas season! Merry Christmas! In the first paragraph, you nailed my family’s Christmas tradition! I can just see each of the things you mentioned happening in my relatives’ house on Christmas Day. But, more importantly, your devotional gave me a new insight into this familiar Scripture passage. I must have heard the story of Simeon and Anna a hundred times, yet never had I thought of how these two bridged any generation gap that may have existed at the time. I myself don’t really experience the generation gap – most of my friends belong to different generations – but it’s still important for me to remember what you mentioned in this reflection.

Thanks to you and all others who wrote reflections this Advent/Christmas season! Merry Christmas!

]]> By: Dora Ramirez http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-25-christmas-for-the-generations/#comment-1831 Dora Ramirez Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:15:55 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1206#comment-1831 Full of grace... grace from God!! It's nice to read your thoughts!! Me impacta la gracia que Dios te ha dado para escribir estas reflexiones!! Siempre es un placer leer o escuchar tus reflexiones Sr. Presidente!! Feliz Navidad... desde Paraguay! Full of grace… grace from God!! It’s nice to read your thoughts!! Me impacta la gracia que Dios te ha dado para escribir estas reflexiones!! Siempre es un placer leer o escuchar tus reflexiones Sr. Presidente!! Feliz Navidad… desde Paraguay!

]]> By: Ethel http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-25-christmas-for-the-generations/#comment-1830 Ethel Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:43:19 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1206#comment-1830 Thanks for reminding our older generation to embrace a younger member whether we agree or not with the prevalent thinking of many of that generation! Thanks for reminding our older generation to embrace a younger member whether we agree or not with the prevalent thinking of many of that generation!

]]> By: Sandi http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-25-christmas-for-the-generations/#comment-1829 Sandi Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:55:15 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1206#comment-1829 thank you for sharing God's Word. thank you for your thoughts and insights. May God's blessings and peace be upon you in this Christmas Season & in the coming New Year. sandi thank you for sharing God’s Word. thank you for your thoughts and insights. May God’s blessings and peace be upon you in this Christmas Season & in the coming New Year.
sandi

]]> By: Randy Springer http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/dec-25-christmas-for-the-generations/#comment-1828 Randy Springer Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:51:06 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1206#comment-1828 Words of wisdom and compassion all around. Affirmed as we journey by the coming of the Christ child, setting the world upside down. Yet bringing true peace on earth. Thanks again to each who took a risk and gave each reader a true gift of themselves. Words of wisdom and compassion all around. Affirmed as we journey by the coming of the Christ child, setting the world upside down. Yet bringing true peace on earth. Thanks again to each who took a risk and gave each reader a true gift of themselves.

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