Deep Peace I Breathe Into You – Apr. 17, 2023
Deep peace I breathe into you,O weariness here:O ache here!Deep peace a soft white dove to you:Deep peace a quiet rain to you;Deep peace an ebbing wave to you! –William Sharp, Dominion of Dreams: Under the Dark Star, p. 423 [The reflective quotes this week are from a poem that appears in the 1895 novel Dominion of […]
The First Noel the Angel Did Say – Dec. 29, 2022
The first Noel the angel did say,Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay;In fields where they lay keeping their sheep,On a cold winter’s night that was so deep. … They looked up and saw a starShining in the east, beyond them far,And to the earth it gave great light,And so it continued […]
Advent Is the Season of Waiting – Dec. 12, 2022
“Advent is that unchangeable season when the same concepts, the same words rise over and over again, year after year, to challenge our hearts and plague our minds. Advent is the season of waiting. And who hasn’t waited? When we are little children, we wait for gifts from our parents. When we are young adults, […]
The Work of Christmas – Dec. 31, 2021
When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild […]
