Category: Anthology of Advent

The Word Became Flesh…     Before anything was, God was. God then decided to fashion companions for Himself. He didn’t want puppets or slaves, so He created His people with a free will. Free will is the power to choose whatever, whenever for good or evil. He also knew that His creation having a fallible…
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     Today, December 1st, 2024 is the first day of Advent and we light the candle of Hope. But let me go back to a place in which I was imagining a future that was bright and good and affirming for all people. I hoped that goodness and love would lift us to a new…
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At Trafalgar Square in the city of London stands a statue of Lord Nelson. Resting atop a tall pillar, it towers too high for passersby to distinguish his features. For this reason, about forty years ago a new statue – an exact replica of the original – was erected at eye level so that everyone…
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Today we light the Advent candle of peace. In honor of the day, God brought an early, morning visitor. While drinking coffee in front of a roaring fire, sleepily staring out our picture window at the misty mountain engulfed in clouds, a dove lit on the rail inside our porch terrace. A dove! He flew…
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Having a heart of Advent means preparing for the Lord’s return. A big part of preparing for the second coming of Christ involves waiting. As His people, we must wait. In faith, we “wait for the Lord, and in His word we hope” (Psalms 130:5). Even when “God hides His face, we wait with hope”…
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Excerpts from my favorite prayer book… “We die; indeed we have to die in order to be resurrected, restored, [transformed], and renewed. We die and we die and we die in this life, not only physically-within seven years every cell in your body is renewed-but emotionally and spiritually as change seizes us by the scruff…
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Today would have been my brothers’ 56th birthday… and I miss him. We were only 14 months apart. Where Mark went, I went. Where I went, Mark went. As Forest Gump would have said, “we were like peas and carrots”. My brother was not only brilliant, but Mark was such a fun-loving, energetic, and insightful…
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“Thus says the Lord, ‘Stand by the ways and see, and ask for the ancient, [eternal, everlasting] paths, where the good [best] way is; and walk in it; and ye shall find rest for your souls,’” Jeremiah 6:16a. Today the Lord led me to this passage of scripture. It spoke volumes to me. The word…
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The other day I ran across the most interesting confession written by Mike Yaconelli.  His words describe my thoughts and feelings exactly…with a large dash of hope. So here I stand, looking at the ground, smelling the faint fragrance of God. Never once did it occur to me that when I found God’s trail again,…
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You may have noticed, Advent is a big theme for chatter on social media this year. There are Advent calendars and devotionals aplenty. Everyone is talking or promoting Advent, which heralds the coming of Christ, pointing toward His second coming , getting one’s soul ready during the month of December.   I must admit, I…
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