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My Advent Prayer for 2020
My Advent Prayer for 2020…
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A Dialogue with Jesus…
A way to prepare in Advent– pray and meditate on all the ways that Jesus reveals Himself to us…the ways Jesus wants us to know him and open ourselves to him in a very personal and intimate ways… preparing our hearts and bringing us in a closer relationship; becoming ready for His birth. I come…
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Lady in Waiting
In this life we cannot always do great things but we can do small things with great love. (commonly attributed to Mother Teresa) This is no ancient fairytale told of an attending companion to one crowned by high birth this – no imagined fabulous fiction no mere myth of gods and goddesses. In…
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Advent 2020. Yes, Please.
How do you enter the Advent season this year? Are you hopeful or are you struggling? For me, Advent is a hopeful season, but 2020 has challenged and even changed me, my friends, and loved ones more than any other year. Today, my state enters into a two-week pause due to the pandemic. The fact…
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Advent Starts Tomorrow…
Please join us this Advent for our blog, Overcoming the Darkness with Light.
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We Can Bloom, Even Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Many people have witnessed a plant growing in the middle of a cement sidewalk or noted a flower springing forth from the middle of a concrete wall. At the side of my driveway and up against the cement wall of my neighbor’s foundation, a small purple little flower demonstrates the possibility of growth under…
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Ode to Joy this Easter…
“It was into a world like ours that Jesus was born.” Sarah Christmeyer And today we celebrate his resurrection! Happy Easter! “Christ the Lord is risen today, sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; sing, ye heavens and Earth reply.” Charles Wesley “This year, Easter will be different for many…
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Not so Empty Tomb
Usually I imagine myself watching from afar with the other women on the day Jesus was crucified and buried. This year, I feel as if I’m in the tomb. We don’t know much about day two of that weekend — Saturday — the Gospels all seem to leap from Friday to Sunday. But we know it certainly…