What Advent Really Is : What We All Really Need This Season : & How to Be A Star in the Dark

When I found this little ceramic Christmas tree from the 70’s — that had no star?


Just a table-top tree with translucent multi-colored bulbs, up on the upper shelf of a piled and tilting thrift store?


Yeah, I rescued a sting of childhood memories and brought that chipped star-less tree home.


Because it’s December the 1st, and the hype ends now, like someone, thank God Almighty, duct-taped all the grating noise and made a sacred space of sane stillness.


These are loud and wounding days of right reckoning. News streams are a torrent of pain. A lady yells at me on the way home with this blister of 40 tongue-lashings.


And I’m telling you: When we dash one person’s light — we dash a world of light, because we tend to pass on our pain, instead of passing the peace.


Maybe when we are most disillusioned with each other, is when most need to be blaze illumination for each other.


_DSC8888



DSC_3400


DSC_5389


_DSC8811



_DSC8814


DSC_5398

1 like ·   •  0 comments  •  flag
Share on Twitter
Published on December 01, 2017 15:59
No comments have been added yet.


Ann Voskamp's Blog

Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.
Follow Ann Voskamp's blog with rss.