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2015-12-18T08:20:00-04:00

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Advent, Day 20: you can always start over

Last updated on: December 18, 2015 at 8:20 am By Kaitlin B. Curtice

It’s the holidays, and with the New Year around the corner, I bet more than a few of us are already inspecting ourselves, asking what needs to change. My dear friend Rachel had some really sweet and wise words for me the other day. She reminded me, with a quote that I’d actually posted days earlier, to be soft with myself and with the people I love most around me. It’s the end of the semester, so as we gear... Read more

2015-12-17T08:30:00-04:00

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Day 19 of Advent: Frodo’s Home

Last updated on: December 17, 2015 at 8:30 am By Kaitlin B. Curtice

One of the books I’m reading this holiday season is JRR Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring. On their long journey, Frodo and his trusty companions find themselves in gloomier and gloomier predicaments, in hollow, dark forests and in orc-infested hillsides and caves. So it doesn’t come as much of a surprise when Frodo desperately longs for home, for the Shire, for his bedside light and the comfort of his pipe. “But now his thoughts had been carried away from the dark... Read more

Fellowship of the Ring

2015-12-16T08:33:00-04:00

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Advent, Day 18: our holiday coming and going

Last updated on: December 16, 2015 at 8:33 am By Kaitlin B. Curtice

Jesus, I sit in this bustling coffee shop and watch holiday people come in and out, order their coffee, smile to their neighbor, enjoy their warm winter-time drinks. And I think that while Christmas is all about our Advent, our waiting and longing and hoping, You also came so we’d learn to enjoy our days a little better. The hope You gave and give allows us to be human a little more gracefully. So this simple morning stop, this... Read more

2015-12-15T08:30:00-04:00

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Advent, Day 17: a present a day

Last updated on: December 15, 2015 at 8:30 am By Kaitlin B. Curtice

Travis and I met in the fall, and we could have gotten married that December if we’d been a little crazier– there was glitter in our eyes from the very beginning. We sat at the neighborhood Starbucks one night, our favorite booth by a big window, and I told him how much I loved December, Christmas, gift-giving. And he made me a quiet promise there: a gift a day through Christmas. One day, it was a shirt. One morning, peanut butter cookies on... Read more

2015-12-14T08:30:00-04:00

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Day 16 of Advent: Christmas for children

Last updated on: December 14, 2015 at 8:30 am By Kaitlin B. Curtice

“…The child doesn’t have to struggle to get himself in a good position for having a relationship with God; he doesn’t have to craft ingenious ways of explaining his position to Jesus; he doesn’t have to create a pretty face for himself; he doesn’t have to achieve any state of spiritual feeling or intellectual understanding. All he has to do is happily accept the cookies, the gift of the kingdom.” — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel You don’t have to have children... Read more

2015-12-13T08:30:00-04:00

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Advent, Day 15: the end of all fear

Last updated on: December 13, 2015 at 8:30 am By Kaitlin B. Curtice

If you’ve got snowy air where you are, you might notice the world atmosphere mixing in with all that frosty white– it seems an air of fear has smogged up our once peaceful spaces and many are afraid. Do you remember the story of young Mary and dear Joseph? They made a long journey, Mary full-bellied and Joseph full-worried, both holding the mystery of the gigantic future ahead. Maybe they were afraid. And maybe they felt like they didn’t belong. And... Read more

2015-12-12T08:47:00-04:00

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Advent, Day 14: a prayer against time

Last updated on: December 12, 2015 at 8:47 am By Kaitlin B. Curtice

Emmanuel, The longer I live, the further my heart gravitates from the bounds of time we’ve created for ourselves. I long to throw out the alarm clock, to eat only when I’m hungry, to live season to season instead of month to month. I long to live my life on Your time frame, in Your seasons, with Your Spirit guiding me. May this Advent season be without time constraints. May we pass these days in the ease of knowing that... Read more

2015-12-11T08:21:00-04:00

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Day 13 of Advent: living mystery

Last updated on: December 11, 2015 at 8:21 am By Kaitlin B. Curtice

“Living without mystery means knowing nothing of the mystery of your own life, nothing of the mystery of another person, nothing of the mystery of the world; it means passing over our own hidden qualities and those of others in the world.” –Bonhoeffer American Christmas traditions reek of busy movement and to-do lists and discount shopping, and suddenly it’s January and the season of hopeful expectation really only made us more exhausted. Bonhoeffer wrote letters to his loved ones at Christmas time while... Read more

2015-12-10T08:30:00-04:00

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Advent, Day 12: the good tension

Last updated on: December 10, 2015 at 8:30 am By Kaitlin B. Curtice

There’s a really difficult tension in being human that we always carry with us– the tension of grieving with those who grieve and rejoicing with those who celebrate– it may be our greatest tension, but it’s also what makes us most beautiful. I can laugh hysterically while my boys wrestle each other on the living room floor, and offer up a prayer for the friend who miscarried, for the mama whose little ones are not well enough to play. We... Read more

2015-12-09T09:08:08-04:00

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Day 11 of Advent: the emotional Savior

Last updated on: December 9, 2015 at 9:08 am By Kaitlin B. Curtice

Thank God that You, Jesus, were born into humanity, with the full spectrum of our known emotions within You. You cried hungry cries and maybe threw a toddler tantrum or two. As a grown man, You tore the tablecloths off tables and seethed at the rich rulers, the ones who threw rocks at Your people. You laughed as You watched little Zacchaeus shimmy down that tree. You wept for Lazarus; You cried blood before Your death; You held Your mama... Read more

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