Category: Advent
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Choosing Love in the Advent Season
As we approach the last week of Advent, the first verse that comes to mind is John 3:16, perhaps the most popular verse from the New Testament. This is an example of great love that really wraps up the meaning of Jesus’s coming and perhaps the whole message of the New Testament in one sentence. …
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Spiritual slouching
I heard the phrase spiritual slouching the other day and it got me musing about how this may be prevalent now. The energy of the election and its aftermath may have brought up unrest and slouching of the ego or vice versa, inflation of the ego! We could also feel a slouching of the soul…
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Wise use of energy
You might have heard me mention that I am a God loving Christian who doesn’t always get spiritually fed while in church. I tend to justify this by my inherent introverted nature. I work in the medical field and do feel that my cup is often filed with this type of work. I feel privileged…
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Choosing Love in the Advent Season
As we approach the last week of Advent, the first verse that comes to mind is John 3:16, perhaps the most popular verse from the New Testament. This is an example of great love that really wraps up the meaning of Jesus’s coming and perhaps the whole message of the New Testament in one sentence. …
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Choosing Joy in the Advent Season
As we enter the third week of advent, I was musing about what the word advent means. Ok, I know what it means from a Christian perspective but what are the roots of the word? A simple definition of advent is arrival as we can see when we trace the origin of the word from…
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Choosing Peace in the Advent Season
Most of us are familiar with the Christmas story and how Jesus entered the world. The Jews had been waiting for the Messiah for so long, some had begun to lose hope. The reading of his arrival into a cold manger in Bethlehem can be a tradition that helps us feel Jesus’s sweet presence. The…
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