Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings. Listen to one of the moms share and be encouraged that God always wins over evil. God can, and will, do the same for you.
Month: December 2013
Night is not dark
Night is not dark where she stands bright,
the woman clothed in living light.
Crowned with the stars, who served on earth
The Word to whom her faith gave birth.
Genevieve Glen, OSB
The look on His face
During Advent, we meditate on the Second Coming of Christ as well as the first. In the book of Revelation, it says: “And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” I could not help but think of what Christ’s face will look like when we are presented to Him as His bride when I looked at these photos. May they be a meditation for you of the pure love of your Bridegroom: 24 grooms seeing their brides for the first time. So great is His love for you.
Close to giving up hope?
Reblogging from Ann Voskamp this morning: When You’re This Close to Giving Up Hope Just a reminder that He’s always, always near. Hold on.
Advent visitation
A beautiful Advent Sunday-poem from Luci Shaw:
Advent visitation
Even from the cabin window I sensed the wind’s
contagion begin to infect the rags of leaves.
Then the alders gilded to it, obeisant, the way
angels are said to bow, covering their faces with
their wings, not solemn, as we suppose, but
possessed of a sudden, surreptitious hilarity.
When the little satin wind arrived,
I felt it slide through the cracked-open door
(A wisp of prescience? A change in the weather?),
and after the small push of breath–You
entering with your sir of radiant surprise,
I the astonished one.
These still December mornings
I fancy I live in a clear envelope of angels
like a cellophane womb. Or a soap bubble,
the colors drifting, curling. Outside
everything’s tinted rose, grape, turquoise,
silver–the stones by the path, the skin of sun
on the pond ice, at night the aureola of
a pregnant moon, like me, irridescent,
almost full-term with light.
Your light will come
A Christmas Card
I don’t usually post Christmas music videos before Christmas. (Trying to keep Advent Advent.) But this one is special. And it’s for all of you who are having a hard time during this Advent season, finding it hard to be joyful like all of those around you. This one’s for you (from Steven Curtis Chapman).
And here’s his story behind the song.
Now, go back and listen to the song again, written just for you.
Memories of goodness
Hope, the greatest gift
A sharing by Ann Voskamp (filmed by her daughter, Hope-Girl) on Hope, the greatest gift.
Waiting in Hope
The talk from last night’s Witnesses to Hope talk, “Waiting in Hope,” is now available here.
Witnesses to Hope 