A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance
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Preparing For Advent: Watch For The Light
“Christ did not just come as a moral tune-up, self-improvement guru, or spiritual teacher,” writes Deacon Joanna Seibert, quoting from an Advent yearly favorite Watch for the Light. Jesus brings the presence of God within us, which can break through and be born in our hearts today. Watch for the Light is a collection of short essays from some of the best spiritual wisdom over the centuries.
From Joanna Seibert.
Redemption Song
We focus on repentance during Advent, but Br. Jim Woodrum calls us also, maybe even more, to the redemption that Christ’s coming offers us. This Advent, “let us heed the call of the prophets,” says Br. Woodrum, “turning towards the suffering of this world, resolving to accept the call to communicate the light, life, and love of our Creator.”
Story…Our Aging Superpower
We have something to offer as we age – our stories. “Our years give us perspective and experience, and we have an essential role to offer as storycatchers and storytellers committed to peace- making, reconciliation, and community repair,” says Christina Baldwin.
Subverting Anxiety with Hope
“If to be alive today is to breathe the air of an anxious world, to be a Christian today is to subvert that anxiety with hope,” says Michaela O’Donnell. That is our job this Advent – to bring hope into a hopeless world.
Advent Rejoicing
Life is messy. But our God promises to stand with us in the midst of it. That is the message of Advent, says writer and podcaster Kate Bowler. This Advent, the Wisdom Years community will connect with the Advent message using Kate’s offering The Weary World Rejoices. We will read daily devotionals on our own, then come together on Thursdays, Dec. 5, 12 and 19 for an hour of online conversation.
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