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Advent, Day 23: Shining All Around
2+ hour, 54+ min ago LOOK: Invisible Boundaries by Rowan Mersh LISTEN: "Break of Dawn" by Antoine Bradford, feat. Montell Fish, on Light Will Find You (2021) When I can't find my way homeThere You, there You areCalling me over to Your sideI can't escape Your…...
Advent, Day 22: Beauty
1+ day, 3+ hour ago LOOK: Confetti Skies by Rochelle Redfield LISTEN: "When the Beauty Comes" by Nicolas Melas, 2018 | Performed on Behold and Become: An Early Church Worship Album, 2019 When the beauty comes, the beauty comesWhen the beauty comes, it all just falls from the…...
Advent, Day 21: All Tears
2+ day, 2+ hour ago And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "See, the home of God is among mortals.He will dwell with them;they will be his peoples,and God himself will be with them;he will wipe every tear…...
Advent, Day 20: New Jerusalem
3+ day, 3+ hour ago And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. LOOK: Epiphany of the Other by Richard Kenton Webb LISTEN: "How Long, Dear Savior" (NORTHFIELD) | Words…...
“Those Who Saw the Star” by Julia Esquivel (poem)
3+ day, 12+ hour ago The Word, for our sake, became poverty clothed as the poor who live off the refuse heap. The Word, for our sake, became agony in the shrunken breast of the woman grown old by the absence of her murdered husband....
Advent, Day 19: New Day
4+ day, 3+ hour ago A new day will dawn on us from abovebecause our God is loving and merciful.He will give light to those who live in the darkand in death's shadow.He will guide us into the way of peace. "the Jewish…...
Advent, Day 18: Day Star
5+ day, 3+ hour ago We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. "2 Peter…...
Advent, Day 17: Come, My Beloved
6+ day, 1+ hour ago What is that coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of a merchant? "Song of Solomon 3:6 (KJV) Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of…...
Advent, Day 16: A Great Light
1+ week, 3+ hour ago LOOK: Sunlight in Forest by Charles Burchfield LISTEN: "Isaiah's Prophecy" | Words by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange, after Isaiah 9:2, 67 | Music by Alexander L'Estrange | Performed by London Voices, dir. Ben Parry, with Richard Gowers on organ, on Winter Light (2024) The people who walked…...
Advent, Day 15: Promise
1+ week, 1+ day ago LOOK: the rain bows and the rainbows by Katy Mixon But the overall meaning points to the multihued arc that appears in the sky after a rainfall, as sunlight refracts through water vapor. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the rainbow is…...