Advent Devotion: December 15, 2022

It’s Christmas by Mandisa Go to https://bit.ly/mandisachristmas to listen to the song and reflect on its lyrics. They’re hanging all the lights on the main street square People are smiling everywhere Trees up in the windows, Frost on the glass Christmas is here...

Advent Devotion: December 14, 2022

Wednesday, December 14 “Not My Burden” by Titus Kaphar (originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan) This painting reflects things that have been happening in the Black community for generations–the different kinds of disappearance that happens to young Black children, that...

Advent Devotion: December 13, 2022

Tuesday, December 13 Into the Longest Hour by Madeleine L’Engle Read this poem and take some time to imagine the image that the poet paints with her words. It was a time like this, War & tumult of war, a horror in the air. Hungry yawned the abyss– and yet there...

Advent Devotion: December 12, 2022

Monday, December 12 My Soul Proclaims That God is Good by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette to the tune of the Traditional English melody “What Child Is This?” Take some time to sing this song today. My soul proclaims that God is good I sing to God my Savior. For...

Advent Devotion: December 11, 2022

Sunday, December 11 “Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun” by Vincent van Gogh In May of 1889, in the depths of a mental health crisis, Vincent van Gogh retreated to an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, in southern France. Here, the artist, who would die by suicide the...