So These Three Magicians Go On A Road Trip…

Happy New Year, people of The Table! I realize it’s kind of standard social practice to extend that greeting at this time of the year, but I mean it. And I also mean to say “I hope and pray for you all a meaningful New Year, one in which hope can thrive and love can expand into new places in your souls, your lives and your world”.

How might such things come to be? Dana Gioia, poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in America, says, “There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories or songs or images. Art awakens, enlarges, refines and restores our humanity”.

So, in the interest of having things that are good, lovely and true awaken and grow more present in our human experience, I’m going to explore the ancient (and frankly, kind of weird!) story about the Magi – those would be the magicians of the subject line – this Sunday morning. I humbly submit to you that it’s a story that can reach all the way from its ancient origins to teach us some fundamental lessons about what to carry out the door with us each morning if we want to things like hope and love become more present in the world.

By way of important details, it’s the first Kids Table Sunday of the New Year – yeah!

See you on Sunday…

Peace,

Tim Plett