Christmas
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Sunday Evening Collective ~ November 30th Edition

This week we slow our pace and pay attention to what is already good. Through gratitude, honest reflection, and small moments outdoors, we steady ourselves for Thanksgiving week. Grace is present in the ordinary. Choose one simple act of gratitude and let it shape the days ahead. Continue reading
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Christmas Series | Advent Week 1 – Hope

Hope begins in the dim places where vision is limited and longing rises. Advent invites us to stand in the fog without fear and to trust the small signs of light that steady the heart. Hope leans forward, attentive to the horizon where morning quietly begins. Continue reading
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A Field Guide to the Christmas Season

The Christmas season moves from Advent’s quiet longing through the joy of Christ’s arrival to the clarity of Epiphany. It is a simple, time tested path for paying attention to hope, peace, joy, love, and light. The season invites reflection, steady expectation, and a renewed sense of presence. Continue reading
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Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?
During the making of the animated Christmas classic A Charlie Brown Christmas, Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had a meeting with Lee Mendelson, the show’s producer, and Bill Melendez, its lead animator. The discussion concerned Schulz’s insistence about including a New Testament scripture reading of the Christmas story from the Bible. The scripture reading was to Continue reading
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Tolkien’s Lost “Noel”
“NOEL” by J. R. R. Tolkien Grim was the world and grey last night: The moon and stars were fled, The hall was dark without song or light, The fires were fallen dead. The wind in the trees was like to the sea, And over the mountains’ teeth It whistled bitter-cold and free, As a Continue reading

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