Dec 7, 2015 | god & grace
I’d like to make you a promise. If you watch for the Light of Advent, it will come to you in unexpected and beautiful ways. It’s a practice I started three years ago at the prompting of the rather fabulous Winn Collier, a pastor whose writings fill my...
Dec 3, 2012 | 30 Days of Joy
What better way to launch this Season of Happy than with one of my great joys: Winn Collier’s #adventpicaday. Last year we looked for the light, and this search brought unexpected grace to every corner of my life. This year’s theme is the search for hope....
Dec 24, 2011 | 30 Days of Joy
In late November, a random click on a passing tweet lead to an unfamiliar blog and a beautiful thought: What if I spent Advent quite literally looking for the light? Would my heart lean forward, as Winn Collier suggested? It has been a remarkable journey filled with...
Dec 12, 2011 | 30 Days of Joy
Let me warn you right up front this is yet another post that centers around an #adventpicaday photo. But before you click away to find something more unexpected—say, a talking dog video on youtube—do let me explain I haven’t posted for two days, just seeing if I...
Dec 9, 2011 | nature & awe
Through the tiny slits that were my eyes when I first awoke this morning, I saw a marvelous orange forming in the sky just outside our bedroom window. I jumped from the bed, threw on the first pair of shoes I could find, and ran to the back yard—too excited to even...
