Keeping Your O

by Lane | Advent

I’m one who savors the season of Advent and Christmas. I love the quiet holiness that can accompany this season. I delight in the many hymns of Christmas. This morning, when I rolled out of bed, I was humming the tune to O Come, O Come Emmanuel.   “O Come, Thou...

Advent: Watching for the Incognito

by Lane | Advent

Incognito Presence   “We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him . He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always hard to penetrate. The real labour is to remember, to attend. In fact, to come...

Pursued by the Word

by Lane | Advent, Poetry

Blessed Lord, who has caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope...

Advent: Listening to our Longings

by Lane | Advent

Advent invites me to listen to my longings… to ponder afresh what I long for in the appearing of Emmanuel, God with us. Join me as we listen to the longings that arise as we savor this piano/cello rendition of O Come, O Come Emmanuel. Click on the title below to...

Advent’s First Sunday

by Lane | Advent

The First Sunday in Advent The Collect.  Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the...

Alert for Betweens

by Lane | Advent, Poetry, Writing

  Between This line And the next My thoughts burst forth Like fireworks Shimmering against The dark.   Between This line And the next I may have strolled around the block Or down the lane. I may have stopped and chatted with a friend Over a cup of Earl Grey...