Archive for the Advent category

An Illuminated Advent – 2018

Thursday, November 29th, 2018

ILLUMINATED 2018 An Online Journey into the Heart of Christmas December 1-28 Sanctuary of Women friends, with Advent fast approaching, I want to let you know that I will be offering a new online retreat for the season! It’s been a few years since I’ve done this, and I am so looking forward to sharing […]

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’ […]

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 […]