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Day 9 of Advent 2024: Delightful and Permanent vs Temporary
What makes you happy?
Getting a promotion at work? Nailing a big project? Scoring the best sale of the holiday shopping season?
Happiness often feels like a fleeting visitor, doesn’t it? It comes and goes with the highs and lows of life. It ...
Day 8 of Advent 2024: Who Gets to Define You?
When Buddy the Elf discovers he’s not truly an elf but a human, his world tilts. The labels he’s carried—elf, toy-maker, Santa’s helper—suddenly feel fragile, like they might crumble under the weight of this new truth. He begins to question ...
Day 7 of Advent 2024: Summary
Day 1:
Advent. A season steeped in anticipation—the kind that leans forward into the unknown, heart open to the possibilities of heaven meeting earth. Advent invites us to trade rigid expectations for the spaciousness of hope, loosening our ...
Day 6 of Advent 2024: Thwarting the Danger of the Spotlight
Maybe you are their Rudolph...
Rudolph could have stayed in the spotlight.
He had earned his place, hadn’t he? After years of rejection and mockery, he was leading Santa’s sleigh, the hero of Christmas Eve, with the world finally seeing ...
Day 5 of Advent 2024: What kind of nurse are you?
Rudolph had every reason to nurse a grudge.
The teasing and rejection weren’t just minor slights—they were relentless. His bright red nose, his gift, became the thing that made him the target of mockery and exclusion. The other reindeer made ...
Day 4 of Advent 2024: Seen and Being Seen
Do you remember your first crush?
You liked them soooooo much, yet it remained to be seen if you were actually “seen.”
That’s a difficult space to live in.
Waiting to be seen.
Not just waiting to be physically noticed or seen in ...
Day 3 of Advent 2024: Where’s your wilderness?
What if the wilderness you are wandering is one of the mind?
As you probably know, I am fresh off a trip to Iceland. It was a “bucket list” kind of thing. Tom and I were going to plan it ourselves, but in trying to do so I quickly realized, ...
Day 2 of Advent 2024: Finding Hope in Rejection
Haven’t we all been there?
Misunderstood.
Rejected.
Feeling like the parts of us that make us “us” are the parts that others turn away from.
We are faced with that uncomfortable junction . . . discerning whether we lean in strongly ...
Day 1 of Advent 2024 – The Anticipation of Expectations
Today is the first day of Advent.
Advent is nothing if not a season of anticipation—leaning forward into the story of God’s arrival in the world, wondering anew how heaven and earth might collide.
Anticipation is a kind of magic, isn’t ...
The Elephant in the Room, Week Four: The Science of God
Big and Small
Before we dive into the words for today, if you’ve found this series interesting and would enjoy conversation around the messages and/or meditations, please reply to this email. We are going to have a Zoom weekly on Wednesday ...
Spies Like Us
For today's devotion, I'm going to ask for a moment of personal privilege. I don’t usually like making things "all about me"—but I hope this story will give you the little push you might need to take action on something you’ve been ...
The Elephant in the Room
Day Two: “What a Difference Several Years Makes”
When Tom and I first started dating, it was an interesting convergence of two totally different worlds. Funny enough, as I typed these words, my AI Grammar Check suggested “exciting” instead ...
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