Advent Prayer III
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Together we wait in Joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Advent Poem
HOW LONG WE WAIT
How long we wait, with minds as quiet as time,
Like sentries on a tower.
How long we watch, by night, like the astronomers.
Heaven, when will we hear you sing,
Arising from our grassy hills,
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5th Anniversary of Sandy Hook Tragedy
TODAY is the 5th Anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings in Newton, Connecticut. 20-grade schoolers aged 6 and 7 and six adult staff members at the school were killed. Let us not grow complacent or used to such human-instigated tragedies. Let us remember Read more [...]
Tuesday Advent Meditation
Although Mary’s labor was a singularly physical and eternally unmatched act, it’s meaning is most fully and faithfully experienced only if we understand it as a commission for us to do the same. Put simply, in order for God to be manifest on Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
A homie named Cruz spent his last dollars taking a Metrolink train sixty miles to Los Angeles from San Bernadino, where he had relocated his lady and newborn to avoid the dangers and desperation of his previous gang life. He had Read more [...]
Advent Prayer II
Advent Blessings, Friends.
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Advent Reflection
During this season of Advent we dare to move beyond the reach of human reason, to dream of the radical nature of the peaceable kingdom for which we all yearn and which is symbolized in the shocking and evocative biblical image of the wolf lying down with Read more [...]
Advent: Listening for the Soul’s Task
In a world that is increasingly adverse to silence and in a society that is scattered, frenzied, encumbered, cluttered, complex, frenetic, busy, multi-tasking, and consumptive, we need to cultivate silence and simplicity in order to listen deeply for Read more [...]
Bah Hum Bug or the Bishop’s Bug?
If I had to run into my home because of the proverbial fire (which sadly is not merely proverbial this week in Southern California) and retrieve the proverbial treasured things that one could escape with without risking one’s life, one of the cherished Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
It is Advent and we are a people, pregnant. Pregnant and waiting. . . .
Waiting, because it will always be with us, can be made a work of art, and the season of Advent invites us to underscore and understand with a new patience Read more [...]