This year’s Advent devotional uses a new format. In place of longer written pieces, each day offers a scripture, an image, and a short meditation. It’s simple, flexible, and easy to enter at any point in the season. God of Love, By your grace we seek to be wise and courageous, to speak the truth boldly, to stand for the good.  May we do so in your Spirit, gently and humbly present for others.  By your grace may we desire to be loving instead of being right, to listen instead

This year’s Advent devotional uses a new format. In place of longer written pieces, each day offers a scripture, an image, and a short meditation. It’s simple, flexible, and easy to enter at any point in the season. “Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one.”    George Fox     How do I see the sacred in other people this day?

This year’s Advent devotional uses a new format. In place of longer written pieces, each day offers a scripture, an image, and a short meditation. It’s simple, flexible, and easy to enter at any point in the season.  “The glory of God is the human person fully alive.”     ~St. Irenaeus     When do I see the sacred in other people this day?

This year’s Advent devotional uses a new format. In place of longer written pieces, each day offers a scripture, an image, and a short meditation. It’s simple, flexible, and easy to enter at any point in the season. When we look through the lens of the sacred, we prepare our senses to recognize the holy in all people.      “This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said ‘The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths