How to Prepare for an Easy Advent: When the First Snow Falls Quiet on the...
Snow’s coming down here now like confetti for a party that just won’t stop and the orchard just keeps on welcoming the whole thing. Yeah, so only about two days now. That’s what Advent means — coming....
View ArticleA Story For Advent Eve: The Legacy, The Light & The Lamb, & The Story That...
I call my Mama on a Thursday afternoon, just right before Advent, and we swap tender stories, like we are actually made of stories, like we need stories to be… to breathe. My phone says we trace the...
View ArticleThe Laments of Advent: When It Doesn’t Feel Like the Light’s Coming Fast Enough
In these darkest days of the year, the very first days of Advent, and the last of a long year, I think that, wrapping a hand round my morning mug of warm, witnessing the sun pull itself out of the...
View ArticleThe Powerful Backstory of How Your Christmas Tree -& Your Christmas- Can...
When I was a little kid, all the hurt of loss and trauma was rather large under our roof. So getting up even a sad little Charlie Brown Christmas tree for our family was, honestly, just painfully...
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