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Date: 11 December 2006 14:36:50
Two weeks to go; half the windows on this blog are now open. I have a few very good advent links for you from around the wibsite and slightly wider.
Firstly, an attempt to grapple with a family service, from Chelley. From which a soundbite:
'And we can also point him out in our lives, by living as he has called us to live: “look, here he is” as we love one another, as we seek to serve and to help the poor, as with his help we give glimpses of Jesus through our own lives.
Advent is a perfect season to think about these things, to prepare the way for the Lord and to point him out every day, just like John the Baptist did.'
Richard quotes a fine Christmas poem, under the heading 'A Poem for Christmas' (does what it says on the tin).
'...Now native to earth as I am, nailed
to my poor planet, caught
that I might be free, blind in my womb
to know my darkness ended,
brought to this birth for me to be new-born,
and for him to see me mended
I must see him torn.'
A dissenting voice from Fineline makes interesting reading. Should we celebrate Christmas? The Puritans, for instance, thought not.
“Grace comes to us hidden beneath its opposite”: my umpteenth link this advent from Sarah. For anyone grieving, and wanting to find God.
No entry tomorrow probably, go raid your choccie advent calendar instead. Next window opening hopefully on Wednesday.