For Advent this year the artists at our church created the Advent Calendar – one video every day of advent – each artist walks us through the advent theme of their week and allows us to journey through advent together. This is my video with the theme of Love. To watch the others visit LittleContinue reading “Love”
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Sitting in the lap of the King
This week in the advent calendar is Joy… it’s a word I have long struggled to explain or even comprehend. Joy has become synonymous with happy and yet in my own experiences of joy it hasn’t felt like happy. While I lived in Austria I experienced a time that many poets call the dark nightContinue reading “Sitting in the lap of the King”
Be advent.
As unreal as it seems we have once again come to that time of year when we need to sit back, watch, wait, celebrate, and allow the good news of Christmas and the coming King to wash over us, renew us; in some cases to breathe life back into us. It has been a hardContinue reading “Be advent.”
A single light
It is Christmas eve. I love this particular holiday. This year we gifted the whole family with a new puppy named Max. He’s a joy to have in the house but he is a puppy and he can be rambunctious; lots of walks are needed to keep him at a good level of sane whileContinue reading “A single light”
Always in Advent
Hope, longing, anticipation, and preparation. As we prepare for Christmas we walk through the steps of preparing for the King to come. Not Santa, not presents, but the King. How wrong do we get this every year? How many of us lose our focus and buy into the commercialism that the media and society pushContinue reading “Always in Advent”