Today, I’ve been married for 10 months. And I love the timing of this, in the final week of Advent, the week which bears the theme: love. On Sunday, our pastor shared on this theme some words that really resonated with me: Advent is a coming of love. The nature of love is participation; it’s […]
advent 2020, week 3: do we deserve joy?
What do you deserve? It seems like a weird question, but also one that I think most of us have a pretty negative answer for. For me, I tend to think I deserve “bad things.” I never out-right say that, and you probably don’t either. It comes out in a different way: “I don’t deserve […]
Advent: Peace and imperfection.
“I was rounding the corner to the new year in every way. Promise had surfaced in my life. We’d had small circumstantial changes that had translated into fragile hope. But hope was hope. There were no gradations. I hadn’t this sort of quickening of spirit in years.Morning had broken.For a few days, at least…I wrapped […]
Advent Songs, Christmas Eve: glory
The new year races towards me, but today, it’s only Christmas Eve. Still, as I read Luke 2 this morning, my thoughts went to the words I’ve been pursuing in these last days of 2016—“the right time”—as I read their counterparts only a few verses into the famous, beautifully captured words of the Christmas story. […]