Often, at night when I am most with Jesus and the Holy Spirit in prayer, I draw the curtains. Privacy, seclusion, minimal distractions. I am not of this world but another. But last night I let the curtains be. The moon was right outside the window, spectral and thin, and I was in the moodContinue reading “Advent Travels: Under the Bookish Pedagogy”
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Advent Travels: A Critter in Creation
Briefly. What did you think Love would look like, when at last you realized or remembered it? What did you think oneness with God would feel like? When our fundamental unity with all life is at last revealed, what will it be like to be you? We cannot crave that which we do not knowContinue reading “Advent Travels: A Critter in Creation”
Advent Travels: The World as Eden
In Advent, no warning, the writing become disuptive. I forget that we are not in this together, and that my understanding of the illusion of separate interests cannot by force overcome that illusion in another. Why is this so hard? Over the weekend I read Jane Yolen’s YA history of the Shakers. I have lovedContinue reading “Advent Travels: The World as Eden”
Advent Travels: A Footnote Almost
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”
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”