Advent 4, Year A
The days grow short in our Northwest winter. The darkness easily pushes back the afternoon sun, as evening casts its shadows over our lives. Is it no wonder we fill our neighborhoods and our homes with Christmas lights? The sparkling lights offer a quiet beauty in the face of [...]
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advent candle lighting liturgy week 4
Posted in Advent, worship on 18 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
advent candle lighting liturgy week 3
Posted in Advent, worship on 11 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Advent 3, Year A With each passing day the lights of Christmas grow brighter. Holiday decorations line the downtown streets and beckon us outside; the music of the season fills the air around us–in the shopping malls, doctors’ offices, and elevators. Everywhere we turn we find festive backdrops and a Christmas musical score for our daily [...]
advent candle lighting liturgy week 2
Posted in Advent, worship on 5 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Advent 2, Year AHoliday traditions bind us to our roots and to the generations that have gone before. There is the ornament we keep hanging on the tree year after year not because of its beauty, but because it once hung on the Christmas tree in our childhood home. Holiday celebrations just wouldn’t [...]
advent wreath candle lighting liturgy
Posted in Advent, church, worship on 4 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Advent 1, Year A
Each year we tell ourselves it will be different. We will say no to the fuss and the stress. We will say yes to opening our hearts for the Christ child. Yet each year the neighbor across the street gets Christmas lights up before we do. And the calendar fills up [...]
sometimes no sermon is necessary
Posted in Advent, worship on 24 December 2006 | Leave a Comment »
For the fourth Sunday in Advent we used the Cloth for the Cradle litany and action from the Wild Goose Worship Group. Folks are invited to consider how they might prepare their hearts for Christ’s arrival and as a symbol of that preparation to lay a strip of cloth on the manger in the [...]
running with joy
Posted in Advent, church, prayer, spiritual practices, spirituality on 8 December 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Leaving the Labyrinth
Originally uploaded by revnancy.
The labyrinth was a new experience for almost everyone in the congregation. Except for a couple of our youth. One had walked a labyrinth at camp this summer; another at our regional assembly.
Most adults walked the [...]
Labyrinth Walk continued
Posted in Advent, church, prayer, spiritual practices on 5 December 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Labyrinth 1
Originally uploaded by revnancy.
Another picture from this morning’s labyrinth walk.
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