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Chris Altrock is an author, spiritual director and preacher, serving as the Senior Minister at the Stamford Church of Christ. He and his wife Kendra are parents to Jordan and Jacob.

Dreams from The Holy: A Dream Born (Is. 9:2-7)

Darkness is my closest friend (Ps. 88:18 TNIV).  This line comes from the most painful poem in the Bible.  It is written by someone who feels he is in the presence of the absence of God.  “Day and night” the poet cries out to God.  But day and night heaven is silent.  So, the poet laments: Darkness is my closest friend.  When the authors of the Bible describe what it’s like to experience the presence of the absence of God, they use the metaphor of darkness.

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Dreams from The Holy: The Dream of Inclusion (Is. 56:1-8)

Earlier this month a photo was taken at the White House.  In it a white man and a black man sit in high back chairs in the Oval Office.  The white man is President George W. Bush.  The black man is President-elect Barak Obama.  It is the first time that a black President-elect has ever been in the Oval Office.  And this January, it will be the first time a black President takes up residence in the White House.

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