We put our tree up yesterday. Late Friday, C. drove with our daughters to a farm a couple town north, an old man with a meadow full of scraggly pines. You put twenty bucks in an envelope on the porch and then cut down a tree. It’s a tall tree – at least seven feet.Continue reading “Advent Travels: A Footnote Almost”
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Advent Travels: Be Mary
When I wrote Thursday’s post, the Advent travels ended. The writing will go on, of course. But I found what I was looking for. C texted mid-afternoon saying “I read it 4 times.” When you know, you know. Jasper came by later and we stood on the front porch, sipping hot chocolate in the cold.Continue reading “Advent Travels: Be Mary”
Advent Travels: What Dancing Looks and Feels Like
Sawicki says that whatever Christ is, it is contagious (Seeing the Lord 327). What does this mean? When you say “whatever Christ is” you are tacitly saying you don’t know what Christ is. But when you say “Christ is contagious” you are boldly claiming a deep understanding of the experience of Christ. In a senseContinue reading “Advent Travels: What Dancing Looks and Feels Like”
Advent Travels: Mary Said It
0 I cannot figure out if Carolyn Sawicki is holding my hand or slapping me awake from a nightmare. How could I choose? Summarizing aspects of Edward Schillbeeckx’s thinking she casually shreds the past fifteen years of my life. Nothing matters but this. The experience of grace grows out of the fundamental experience of one’sContinue reading “Advent Travels: Mary Said It”
Advent Travels: Snakes and Hotel Windows
In the fourth dialogue in Dialogues on A Course in Miracles, Tara Singh asks a good question: what did you do today in which there were no illusions? Some people say, “the wilderness” is a symbol, a metaphor, a word being a word. The real question is to what does it point? I can’t decideContinue reading “Advent Travels: Snakes and Hotel Windows”
Advent Travels: the Space of Solitude
Chrisoula and the kids were in New York City this past weekend to see Romeo and Juliet. I stayed behind to do chores and keep house. Things were quiet mostly, and I got a lot done. It snowed more than I thought it would, and I didn’t sleep well but it was okay. When IContinue reading “Advent Travels: the Space of Solitude”