Comments on: Advent is Coming https://healthyspirituality.org/advent-is-coming/ Nurturing a vibrant healthy spirituality Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/advent-is-coming/#comment-12525 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:41:18 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8195#comment-12525 In reply to Nancy Ruegg.

Grave and impatience are interesting companions, aren’t they? Does make you stop and think which is one effect of Advent. You poised great questions. Thanks Nancy. Blessed Advent to you too.

]]> By: Nancy Ruegg https://healthyspirituality.org/advent-is-coming/#comment-12524 Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:47:31 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8195#comment-12524 Thank you for sharing the poem, Jean. I especially appreciated these lines: “Give us the grace and the impatience / to wait for your coming to the bottom of our toes, / to the edge of our finger tips.” What insightful opposites Brueggermann sets side by side : grace and impatience. In this case both attitudes ARE desirable, as we await Christ’s second coming. Now to contemplate: What does gracious yet impatient waiting look like? How do I foster those attitudes? And in the meantime, a blessed Advent to you, Jean!

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/advent-is-coming/#comment-12521 Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:29:17 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8195#comment-12521 In reply to Lisa notes.

Thank you Lisa and happy thanksgiving to you and your family too

]]> By: Lisa notes https://healthyspirituality.org/advent-is-coming/#comment-12520 Thu, 23 Nov 2023 02:52:49 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8195#comment-12520 You’re always so helpful to remind us when Advent is around the corner. 🙂 Thank you, Jean. I hope you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/advent-is-coming/#comment-12515 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:34:11 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8195#comment-12515 In reply to Pat Forsman.

Peace to you too Pat, now, throughout Advent and onward!

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/advent-is-coming/#comment-12514 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:33:38 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8195#comment-12514 In reply to Martha J Orlando.

Thank YOU, Martha and may your Advent season be full of blessings!

]]> By: Pat Forsman https://healthyspirituality.org/advent-is-coming/#comment-12508 Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:42:11 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8195#comment-12508 “treasure the Treasure God has given us…slow down sounds good…
thank you jean…
peace

]]> By: Martha J Orlando https://healthyspirituality.org/advent-is-coming/#comment-12507 Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:51:29 +0000 https://healthyspirituality.org/?p=8195#comment-12507 Thanks for reminding us about your Advent book which is still in print, Jean. (So sad about what happened with the other!) I will peruse my bookshelves downstairs to see if I can find it.
I do love the season of Advent. Anything to make God even more present in my daily life is so crucial to developing a healthy relationship with Him.
I will definitely slow myself down!
Blessings!

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