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Author Archives: jwfisch
Grace against time
If you have been following our end-of-the-year emails, you have no doubt become familiar with the contradictions and complications surrounding the nefarious and dastardly but suave Captain Hook from the classic story of Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie. The … Continue reading
Hook often feels alone.
Captain Hook often feels alone. … especially when he is around his crew. He feels isolated and cut off from them, culturally and intellectually. He has very few friends except for Smee, his “number 2 man,” who is friendly and genial. … Continue reading
Hook conflicted
Captain Hook is a complicated, conflicted character. He is hot tempered and treats his crew like dogs. He is menacing and sinister, and yet he is polite, and always exhibits elegant diction and signs of his good breeding. Hook is not … Continue reading
Captain Hook is a thin man with curly, black hair … that drapes over his shoulders, a large hooked nose, a thin black mustache that angles upward sharply, and a large chin. He wears an orange sash over his right shoulder … Continue reading
Tock the Croc
Hook is terrified of Tock the Croc. Maybe more than anything. For him, Tock represents the passage of time. He is afraid Tock’s clock will run down and stop ticking. Then, Hook fears, Tock will sneak up and get him. … Continue reading
Time & Eternity
Captain Hook, that nefarious helmsman of the Jolly Roger, has but two fears. He fears a crocodile with a clock inside of it, and the boy who cut off and threw his hand to that selfsame crocodile who now wants to eat … Continue reading
Family Christmas
Christmas is family. However you cut it, it comes out that way. We get each other whether we like it or not. For richer, for poorer; in sickness and in health; ’til death do us part … we are family.
‘Behold I am making all things new’
Last night in our Catch church service on line, we had a blessed time recalling Isaiah 53 as the true meaning of Christmas. Remembering it was the birth of a suffering servant whose life was “cut short in midstream” for … Continue reading
A Thrill of Hope
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks a new glorious morn It created a shudder through the galaxy — a breaking story that rocked all worlds. It rippled through the stars and slapped against the edges … Continue reading
No Little Town; No Quiet Night
O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by. The little town of Bethlehem is not so little today, and not so still. It’s a place where … Continue reading
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