Tag Archives: Christmas
The Twelve (or Eleven) Blogs of Christmas: The Art of the Undone
The goal was to write 12 blogs about Christmas, about the waiting, the hope, the anticipation, the celebration and all the expectations that get wrapped up in a little child in a manger. They just had to be written before, during, or following Christmas; they were to be written before the end of the year. […]
The Twelve Blogs of Christmas: Happy New Year
Happy New Year! Somewhere in the world the calendar has turned over. 2011 is no more. 2012 has begun. Soon the rest of the world will slowly following, saying goodbye to all the memories, heartaches, joys, despair, sorrow, tears, laughter, achievements, dreams, desires, hopes and everything in between. Tomorrow (or today) we begin making our […]
The Twelve Blogs of Christmas – It’s Gonna Be Rough
A couple weeks ago as I held a very tired little girl in my arms, laying in bed with her trying to soothe her to sleep, I told her of all the fun things that were soon to be. We talked about Christmas and the cousins we’d see. Some coming to us. Some we’d travel […]
The Twelve Blogs of Christmas – Keeping Christ in Christmas
As if I could keep, contain him, I shout ”Merry Christmas” to any and all, but my holiday greeting smacks of self-righteousness and fear, not joy and peace. The things Christ came to expel and illuminate my greeting clings to with cold passion. Like cold water to a man found buried in the snow am I, having the gift of […]
The Twelve Blogs of Christmas – A Poem, Creation Part II
Prelude: nothingness; just water and spirit hovering and waiting hold up with expectation Spirit of God holds His breath in great anticipation for the Voice that soundeth like thunder that roareth like a lion Scene 1: darkness; now light oneness; now two water; now earth blandness; now lushness emptiness; now splendor stillness; now motion silence; […]
The Twelve blogs of Christmas – Let’s laugh
Let’s laugh. Not the sweet laugh of an innocent child. Not the controlled laugh you keep together in public. But that laugh that seeps out over your whole body. Uncontrollable. Embarrassing. Snorting. Hee-Hawwing. Cackling. Full of life. Pulsing. That laugh. When we think of this time of year we often think of joy. Joy and […]
The Twelve Blogs of Christmas – So much depends …
There’s a poem that has stuck with me since college. so much depends/upon a red wheel/barrow glazed with rain/water beside the white/chickens. It’s a simple poem. A visual poem. At first glance it seems pretty straightforward and yet, reading it more than once leaves you with questions. What depends upon a red wheelbarrow? Why so […]
The Twelve Blogs of Christmas – Skipping Pages
We avoid it. We medicate it. We drink it. We eat it. We run way from it. Some of us run to it. Some of us indulge it. But we all want it gone. And if not gone, we’ll settle for control of it. Pain. It’s why at this time of the year we […]
The Twelve Blogs of Christmas – You’ll Never Know
This little girl has forever changed my life. I love her, immensely, grandly, without hesitation or question. I tell her this often. I sing it. I giggle it. I kiss it. I speak it. I pray my actions show her a thousand times a day. I find myself telling her, as we rock to sleep […]
