Tag: Advent
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See How They Shine for you: Poetry of the Stars Petite Retreat.
There is something about the waiting of advent, and the stars that shine down upon us brightening the darkest of skies in the middle of winter.
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The Hopes and Fears of All the Years.
Something very special happens when you come to a Candlelit Carol Service, something quite magical, miraculous even.
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Return to the Cradle
And then I imagined God as a Mother, gently wrapping these women in a huge all encompassing blanket of her love and protection for their ‘laying in’. I closed my eyes and envisioned God wrapping that blanket of love around me: me as a parent, me as a child, me as a woman seeking to…
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Advent Calendars
The same thing happened last year: on the first of December I present my husband (and the children of course) with a chocolate Advent Calendar. On the second of December I am gifted not one, but two, calendars which have miraculously arrived courtesy of next day delivery: a chocolate calendar and a tea one. As…
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Expect the Unexpected
Each year we enter Advent expecting to spend the time preparing for the arrival of the baby in the manger. Certainly that’s what happens in schools, with rehearsals for Nativity plays, the making of Christmas cards and decorations. If we are preparing for the baby in the manger we are looking backwards, and Advent is…
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Cradled
The evenings are drawing in. Christmas encroaches. How do we find time to connect with God, connect with others, connect with our inner selves?