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Wise Women
The Shimmering Hours by Jan Richardson There is so much I want to say, as if the saying could prepare you for this path, as if there were anything I could offer that would make your way less circuitous, more smooth. Once you step out you will see for yourself how nothing could have made you ready for this road that will take you from what you know now to what you cannot perceive except, perhaps, in your dreaming…
Toward Christmas Eve
Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. You have fed us with the bread of tears, and given us tears to drink in full measure. —Psalm 80.3, 5 The Gentle One does not cause us pain, yet all tears come from God. The joy of Christmas is the presence of Christ in the dark night of our hurt. Let your sorrows be a manger for the Christ child, a lowly resting place for the…