Sing

Do you know what puzzled me this week? Scrooge isn't very Scrooge-y in the second stave.

Andrea LingleDecember 10, 2024Advent Incarnate, Lift Up Your Voice, Theme LIX, Advent, A Christmas CarolComment

Inspired

This year our whole family is reading A Christmas Carol

Andrea LingleDecember 4, 2024Advent Incarnate, Lift Up Your Voice, Theme LIX, Advent, A Christmas CarolComment

True Communion

Dear God of the Hungry, Exhausted, and Broken, be present with us.

A Song of Expectation

God of Creation, we are tired, hopeless, and distracted.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleNovember 28, 2023Advent, Advent Incarnate, Into the Light and Dark, An Advent of Prayer, Theme LIComment

Continually Restored

How does one live one by one? To see each car that passes, not as a soulless mechanized obstacle, but as a vehicle containing someone…

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleDecember 20, 2022Community as Creation, ThemeXLIV, Advent, Advent Incarnate, Incarnational StudyComment

Speaking Life

Fact: a paper bag used to bring home various comestibles is a grocery bag, sack, or, apparently, a poke. It is not a robot mask.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleDecember 13, 2022Advent, Advent Incarnate, Community as Creation, creativity, Theme XLIVComment

Arriving at Ephiphany

I love Advent. I am a Christmas Eve girl to my toes. Everything remains to be determined. On Christmas Eve, there is still something to look forward to.

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleJanuary 4, 2022Advent Incarnate, Advent, Incarnational Study, I AM Who(?) I AM, Theme XXXVIComment

Answering

Hush! The darkness beckons. Those of us living in the northern hemisphere hang in a moment of stillness. The night of the year is upon us.

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleDecember 22, 2021Advent Incarnate, Advent, Incarnational Study, I AM Who(?) I AM, Theme XXXVIComment

The Advent of a Name

What can be said about curiosity? In my lifetime it has been the golden child of emotions. Living her spangled life in contrast to drab “boredom.”

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleDecember 15, 2021Advent Incarnate, Advent, Incarnational Study, I AM Who(?) I AM, Theme XXXVIComment

Named

And just like that the mystery is dispelled. The question is replaced by an answer.

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleDecember 8, 2021Advent Incarnate, Advent, Incarnational Study, I AM Who(?) I AM, Theme XXXVIComment

The Other

Advent has arrived once more. It is a return to the beginning.

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleDecember 1, 2021Advent Incarnate, Advent, Incarnational Study, I AM Who(?) I AM, Theme XXXVIComment

Table

God who created the sun that gives us light and the plants who turn that light into energy, we give you thanks! Incarnate God who came to table, we give you thanks! Holy Spirit who fills us with wonder, we give you thanks!
Amen.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleDecember 23, 2020Advent Incarnate, Advent, A Journey Toward Incarnation, Theme XXVIIComment

Story

Son of God who sat and told stories, Creator God who filled the stones with tales of mystery, Spirit of God who inhabits our stories, be they tales of joy or sorrow, grant us the courage to tell the truth—our truth.
Amen.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleDecember 16, 2020Advent Incarnate, Advent, A Journey Toward Incarnation, XXVII, Theme XXVIIComment

Move

Spirit of God, who hovered over the chaos of the waters, meet us in the chaos of movement. Meet us on the way.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleDecember 8, 2020Advent Incarnate, Advent, A Journey Toward Incarnation, Theme XXVIIComment

The Mystery of Change

Something has happened. Something is different.
Is it my shoulders? Well...they don’t feel so heavy, hmm.
My jaw...it has been so tight lately... why, it has released, and I can move it all about!
And my chest...oh how I can breathe in so fully!

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayRyan KlinckJanuary 28, 2020Advent Incarnate, Advent, Ryan Klinck, ThemeXIX, Lift Up Your VoiceComment

Who Might I Become?

Who am I becoming? As Scrooge encounters a future without him, rippling with the effects of a life long-lived under his miserly virtues and values, he comes face to face with the impact of his actions, the harvest of seeds long-sown.

What is Abundance?

Seeing light coming from the other room, Scrooge peeks inside to find that sure enough, the next ghost has paid his visit.

Looking Forward

Charles Dickens’s response to widespread apathy for the plight of the poor was to write A Christmas Carol. We owe the humanitarian spirit of the Christmas season to this work.

There is Something Coming

There is something coming.

Quick, before it is too late, listen.

Do you hear the sound of the oboe? Do you hear the tuning of the violins? Do you hear the rustle of the music on the stand?

...the darkness covered the face of the deep...

. . . the darkness covered the face of the deep . . .

As we journey into the literal dark of the northern winter, we are asked to embrace that which has been declared worthless. Darkness. Rest. Waiting.