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An Advent Paradox: A Miraculous Transformation
… Oh the heretics! Not to remember Bethlehem, or the star as bright as a sun, or the child born on a bed of straw! To know only of the dissolving Now! Still they drowsed on – citizens of the pure,...
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The Day Breaks, Shadows Flee Away
No heaven can come to us Unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven. No peace lies in the future Which is not hidden in this present instant. Take peace. The gloom of the world is but a...
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A Bright Sadness: A Box Full of Darkness
Someone I loved once gave mea box full of darkness. It took me years to understandthat this, too, was a gift.~Mary Oliver, “The Uses of Sorrow” The bright sadness of Lentis a box full of darknessgiven...
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A Bright Sadness: Quickened
I lift mine eyes, but dimm’d with griefNo everlasting hills I see;My life is in the fallen leaf:O Jesus, quicken me. My life is like a frozen thing,No bud nor greenness can I see:Yet rise it shall–the...
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A Bright Sadness: The Everyday Moments
The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments, the moments which, if we do not look with more than our eyes or listen with more than our ears reveal only…a gardener, a...
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A Bright Sadness: God’s First Fruit
Jesus,Apple of God’s eye,dangling solitaireon leafless tree,bursting red. As he dropsNew Eden dawnsand once againwe Adams choose:God’s first fruitor death.~Christine F. Nordquist “Eden Inversed” It...
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A Bright Sadness: Ephemeral Tears
Beauty, to the Japanese of old, held together the ephemeral with the sacred. Cherry blossoms are most beautiful as they fall, and that experience of appreciation lead the Japanese to consider their...
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A Bright Sadness: And Every Stone Shall Cry
This child through David’s city Shall ride in triumph by; The palm shall strew its branches, And every stone shall cry. And every stone shall cry, Though heavy, dull, and dumb,...
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Locked from the Inside
“Jesus moves among men and women–even if it means passing through doors locked from within” Fr. William M. Joensen Many of us frequently–or continually–bolt the doors of our hearts from within, yet we...
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We Wait Patiently
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.Psalm 130: 5-6...
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