On Sunday at church we focused on Advent, and on welcoming the Light of the World. It was a contemplative and peaceful morning, with time and space to reflect and to pray. So thought I'd continue in that vein with other bits and bobs I've gathered and let you do the same. Don't rush :-)
This is what Advent means: to be chosen and upheld by God, to be filled with God's delight and Spirit, to bring justice to the nations, to hold God's hand and be God's promise, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison, to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness (Isaiah 42:1-9).
From Friar Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations
Light shines through ordinary things and makes them extraordinary
"If we aren’t going to love the world around us, then we might as well pack it all up and go home. If we don’t love, and if we don’t bring freedom with us, then we are simply another religion, lumped in with the rest of them. But first, of course, we need to understand who we truly are and what we have at our disposal.
The truth is, the light of the world resides within us".
The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness has not overcome it
John 1:5
'The Lord is my light, my light and salvation
In God I trust, in God I trust'
Taize song
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