by Kit | Dec 6, 2016 | Advent Reflections
And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. —Luke 2:7 So the long-awaited Messiah, God incarnate, was forced to make his arrival in a rudimentary barn that reeked...
by Kit | Dec 5, 2016 | Advent Reflections
He has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate. -Luke 1:52 How radical, how counter-cultural that God’s place of honor is not in the headlines. Or in the Oval Office. Or on the cover of People magazine. Lord, just...
by Kit | Dec 4, 2016 | Advent Reflections, Pin-couragement
I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Psalm 27:13 It’s been the best of times; it’s been the worst of times. Okay, I realize I’m mixing my Dickens references, but after a year marked...
by Kit | Dec 3, 2016 | Advent Reflections, Pin-couragement
Who am I that you would come to me, Lord? In the Christmas narrative, Mary, overcome by a growing understanding that she carries the savior of the world in her teenage womb, bursts out in reverent song. She begins “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit...
by Kit | Dec 3, 2016 | Advent Reflections, Pin-couragement
“He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people...
