Archive for December, 2010

Solstice: A Woman in Winter

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

A Woman in Winter © Jan L. Richardson We were up late enough last night to see the start of the lunar eclipse. It looked like the moon was wearing a beret, just a touch of an upper curve lying in shadow. It has been nearly four hundred years since a lunar eclipse occurred on […]

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Mother Root

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Mother Root © Jan L. Richardson Over at my blog The Advent Door, I recently posted a reflection on Joseph, that remarkable and ordinary man who attended to his dreaming and chose to remain with Mary and with the child she would bear. So powerful was Joseph’s choice that both scripture and history merged Jesus’ […]

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Woman, Waiting

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

All Creation Waits © Jan L. Richardson And so we come to Advent, this sacred season of expectation and anticipation that draws us toward the festival of Christmas. In these days there is much talk of waiting; it is the enduring theme of Advent, and rightly so. For a culture that so often moves too […]

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