Today we’d be expecting the eleven pipers piping, according to that old carol “The 12 Days of Christmas.” That carol seems to take forever to get through most days. By now you’re tired of Christmas music anyway, right? If there’s one thing I lament about our current Christmas practice it is not that it starts … Continue reading Advent Devotional: Sunday, January 4: Eleventh Day of Christmas
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Advent Devotional: Saturday, January 3: Tenth Day of Christmas
In these days we lean more away from the Christmas event itself, the birth, and more toward what it means. We lean away from the stable and toward the star, like those Magi in Matthew’s Gospel, who search for wisdom in the sand of Palestine. Our life is like this, right? We’re caught between an … Continue reading Advent Devotional: Saturday, January 3: Tenth Day of Christmas