Writing Your Way Through Advent

Writing Your Way Through Advent

I sat in Marilyn McEntyre’s Advent poetry class last Tuesday evening. My brown eyes burned, fighting to stay awake. Up way past my normal bedtime as I am an early bird to the nth degree, I wrestled with the tiredness I felt at that moment. Yet my heart bound joyfully...
Advent: Behold Jesus

Advent: Behold Jesus

This December blog is brought to you by the word Behold with a hint of prose.   Behold.   In autumn Sun greets the day full of reds and oranges, golds and yellows.   Leaves – once green, crisp up, curling in the drying air loosening their grip upon...
Creativity and the Work of Waiting

Creativity and the Work of Waiting

“Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot.”  -Dietrich Bonhoeffer   For the one who creates, waiting may be the hardest space to occupy during the creative...
Advent’s Slow Invitation

Advent’s Slow Invitation

When I was a child, airport trips to pick up incoming family members accentuated the wonder of the holidays. We walked from the wood-paneled station wagon all the way to the airport arrival gate, just off the taxiway. Dressed in our Sunday best, we strolled the...
Interrupted

Interrupted

“The people who walk in darkness have seen a great light…” — Isaiah 9:1 Light interrupts the darkness. Raw places sting. They jab at us in a thousand stabs. Be it physical, emotional, intellectual, relational, or spiritual, when we suffer, the...

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