A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
Listen to the long stillness:
New life is stirring
New dreams are on the wing
New hopes are being readied …
God is at work.
This is the Season of Promise.
-Howard Thurman, The Mood of Christmas
From Well for the Journey
Advent is a season of hope and expectation. A time set aside to proclaim once again that our God is still with us, still ready to lead us to peace and reconciliation, if we are willing.
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Stand Up, Lean In
Advent, says Bishop David Reed of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas, calls us to a “brief pilgrimage of active inactivity. . . a sanctuary of sanity.” He offers the practice of “Advent Judo” to live the season.
From the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.
Advent: Curing Fire by Fire
We are born congenitally dis-eased, says Fr. Ron Rolheiser. There is a fire that burns within us, and we have two choices of how to meet it. To quench it we can choose between the world’s definition of success, or we can recognize our longing for God.
From the blog of Ron Rolheiser.
Let Us Pause and Be Grateful
The lowly stone cutter longed to be more powerful and important. Until he found out he already was.
An Evolving Faith
It may surprise us to learn that our God does not hate all the people we do. Or that we may have something to learn from others, or that revolutionary thinking may move us forward as opposed to our remaining stagnant.
Longing for Christ
It’s easy to lapse into nostalgia at this time of year. We may remember – or think we remember – Christmases past of a happy family going to church long after dark and singing Silent Night with lighted candles. But our faith is not about nostalgia; it is about believing the promises of God.
From Society of St. John the Evangelist.
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