There is movement in the scriptures leading to Jesus’ birth. People are travelling along unfamiliar, unexpected, unwelcome and unpredictable roads….watching, waiting, trusting, yearning for God.
How do we long for God with us…Immanuel?
Advent II
Stillness
Stillness opens our hearts to a sense of wonder, allowing us to discover the presence of God in the unexpected and ordinary.
What do you notice in stillness?
Dare to love
“My grief says I dared to love, that I allowed another to enter the very core of my being and find a home in my heart. Grief is akin to praise; it is how the soul recounts the depth to which someone has touched our lives.” Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow
How has your soul been touched deeply?
Winter bird
Redwing in winter
with leftovers in the snow
nourished by color
What nourishes you when life gets bare? How does God provide?
Advent I
O that you would tear open the heavens and come down,
so that the mountains would quake at your presence… Isaiah 64:1
How are you longing for God’s presence this Advent season?
Fermentation
“I always think that that’s the secret of change — that there are huge gestations and fermentations going on in us that we are not even aware of. And then, sometimes, when we come to a threshold, crossing over, which we need to become different, that we’ll be able to be different, because secret work has been done in us, of which we’ve had no inkling.” John O’Donahue in an interview with Krista Tippett
As we stand at the threshold of the Advent season, how will you pay attention to the secret work God is doing within you?
With the Eyes of the Heart 