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December 17, 2019

Melancholy Merriment

This past Sunday we had the most beautiful Advent service of songs and scripture readings, plus my poem that I was blessed to recite. Everything was perfect, even when it wasn’t quite. This inspiring service was the brainchild of one of our worship team leaders,...

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December 14, 2017

Awaiting Our King

Advent is a time to seek the coming of our mighty King once born into a stable meek while angelic choirs did sing He will return once again at a time we can’t predict while the angels sing amen to rescue hearts He has picked...

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December 11, 2014

Come, Baby Jesus

Claudia is having a little fun tending bar at dVerse Poets Pub today, so I thought I’d join in. Her Meeting the Bar prompt today is to write about a character in a book coming alive or someone ending up in a book. I love...

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November 27, 2013

Advent Is – A Googlism Poem

This afternoon I was reading the poetry of a fellow blogger who had commented on one of my poems, and learned of a Form for All lesson I had missed at dVerse Poets Pub a few weeks ago. The lesson from Sam Peralta was on writing...

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December 6, 2012

Advent Thankfulness – A Poem

Last year I wrote an acrostic poem titled Advent, and I have been astounded in the past 4 weeks how many times it has been viewed. The search terms stats on my blog show that a lot of people have been searching for Advent acrostic...

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December 3, 2012

Advent and the Second Coming

The season of Advent is about anticipating our celebration of the coming of Christ into the world. But it is also about anticipating His second coming into the world at the end of time. For that reason, our pastor gave a sermon yesterday titled “End...

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December 17, 2011

Advent Prayer

It’s going to be a busy day today hanging out with hubby and getting our Christmas shopping done. Since I don’t have time to write something original, I decided to post Martin Luther’s Advent prayer from my Lutheran Book of Prayer: O Lord Jesus Christ,...

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December 10, 2011

The Season of Advent

When I wrote my post about Christ the King Sunday, which marked the end of the liturgical church year, I said that I would try to write about all the church holy days and festivals during this new church year. Although I’ve posted a few...

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December 8, 2011

Advent – A Poem

I’ve been thinking all week about writing an acrostic poem about Advent. What I ended up with also uses alliteration so that there are four words for each letter in Advent, to represent the four Sundays of Advent. My son saw me typing this poem...

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November 28, 2011

O Come O Come Emmanuel

We are now in the season of Advent, a time of preparation for Christmas. I decided that for Music Monday during Advent and through the day after Christmas I want to share some of my favorite Christmas songs and why I like them. The first...

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