00331 – Trust the Light

Christmas is about darkness. Darkest hour and longest night. It is the appointment that we dread the most and work hardest in our lives to avoid year after year after year. Whatever month it may finally happen, it is when we choose at least to play hide-and-seek no...

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00311 – Advent: Season of Waiting

Seasons of waiting are seasons of contemplation—of quietness and resting in God, of letting go, of self-yielding. They are times when we watch and listen with the eyes and ears of our heart. Advent, more than any other liturgical season, is about this kind of...

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00150 – Advent Anticipation

There is more to life than we previously imagined. Angels hide in every nook and cranny, magi masquerade as everyday people, and shepherds wear the garments of day laborers. The whole earth is brimming with glory for those with eyes to see and ears to hear. from The...

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00048 – God Is God

It helps me to remember that Jesus prayed for a miracle on the night before He died. “For you all things are possible,” he prayed to his Abba. “Remove this cup from me.” Only when he opened his eyes the cup was still there. Did he lack faith? I do not think so. The...

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00007 – Choral Music and Transcendence

To sing like this, in the company of other souls, and to make those consonants slip out so easily and in unison, and to make those chords so rich that they bring tears to your eyes. This is transcendence. This is the power that choral singing has that other music can...

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