It’s the Season of Advent. Eager anticipation. Hymns, Carols, Trees, Cooking, Parties, Family… the joy (and the stress) just seems to go on without stop. And we are supposed to be HAPPY! Guess what: a lot of people aren’t. For many people who are alone, who are away from hearth-and-home, who are sick or just [...]
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Stave One: What inspires me? I fell upon doing a series of Advent meditations on “Veni Veni Emmanuel” this year after listening to my friend, Sandra Julian’s Christmas album. Especially “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence,” which is one of those songs in which the Angels hide their faces, sing Alleluias, all in a minor [...]
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I got interrupted in my prayers tonight by singing. Not the kind you would expect like children and families singing carols house-to-house (welcome to the South!) in the slushy, mostly-melted snow (ditto.) But the kind when you are so deep in prayer that you can hear the proverbial heavenly hosts sing…. And this is a [...]
