First Sunday of Advent

On this first Sunday of Advent the psalmist urges us,

“Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord”
– trusting we will find light for our path
if only we open our eyes in humble places.

2nd Sunday of Advent

On that day, a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. – Isaiah 11

Maybe this week we could look for and spend some silent time with a tree that has been damaged but continues to grow – and ponder….

Gerald May, psychiatrist and theologian, suggests we reconnect with the natural world:

“We have been fractured… broken away from the nature of one another, broken apart from our own nature… We must allow ourselves to be healed…”

Let us begin again as, so often, did Cornelia Connelly.