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Repentance – an invitation to freedom
For The Second Sunday of Advent Collect Merciful God, who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, that we may greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer; who lives and reigns with you…
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Create – the forgotten language of the season
One year my Mom tried to get us to make our Christmas gifts for one another. There is some serious backstory to all of this, but suffice it to say, she thought she was offering us an antidote to what ailed us. My Mom is an artist. So everyone groaned and thought she had a…
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Promise Denied/Fulfilled
Advent is a season of noticing. And to mark it, I join in the global Advent calendar known as #AdventWord. On the first day, my Twitterfeed showed a fascinating juxtaposition. The word was #promise Between posts about promise, I saw a tweet decrying a New York Times article describing the incredibly normal conveniences American military…
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Signs of Hope
Jesus invites us to turn the story around. The signs we see aren’t omens of bad things, but as signs of hope.
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The divine beauty of planning a Thanksgiving dinner
Thanksgiving is all about the food. That is how must Americans experience Thanksgiving: by eating through it. There are three kinds of Thanksgiving dinners: Always the same. Changing or negotiating between families Eating out. The Same The menu is pretty static for most of us. Turkey and carbs. And for many, the experience is also…
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The worries of this life
A devotional for the First Sunday of Advent Collect Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when…
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Thanks
a season of gratitude and anticipation As we prepare, gather, and eat dinners over a long holiday weekend or campout for the “best deals of the season” at the annual shopping bacchanalia, we are drawn by the season to an attitude of gratitude. The funny thing is just how alien thankfulness sounds in 2021. I…
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