by Paulette Williams | Dec 31, 2021 | NSA Meditations Blog, Uncategorized
We sing this song when the new year comes, but most of us know only a few of its lyrics. The title we know, but we might sing with more gusto if we could translate it into English. Today the song is sung around the globe with the coming of the new year. Nations sing...
by Paulette Williams | Dec 27, 2021 | NSA Meditations Blog, Uncategorized
Kwanzaa is a cultural holiday that begins on the day after Christmas, December 26th and ends on January 1st. It was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulona Karenga, a professor at California State University, Long Beach, to undergird pride and unity among African American...
by Paulette Williams | Dec 20, 2021 | NSA Meditations Blog
Caesar Augustus, emperor of Rome, called for a census of the entire Roman empire. To be counted in the census, persons had to travel to their ancestral hometowns. David, a shepherd who became Israel’s greatest king, was Joseph’s ancestor, and so Joseph and his fiancé,...
by Paulette Williams | Dec 13, 2021 | NSA Meditations Blog
In Charles Dickens’ novel, A Christmas Carol, the notoriously tight-fisted Ebeneezer Scrooge meets the second of three ghosts that the spirit of his deceased partner, Marley, had said would come to him on Christmas Eve. In the room were turkeys, geese, game, poultry,...
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by Paulette Williams | Dec 6, 2021 | NSA Meditations Blog
Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanza, and New Year’s Day—these holidays are upon us. We are frenzied. Check your mail, there might be donation requests from organizations that assist the poor. Note the brown bags in your supermarket; they hold the contents for a...
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