Entering this Advent season with acute aches and chronic longings, we're drawn to the ready gifts offered by A Rocha Arts partners. Lyric expressions taken from recently-released works serve as a spring from which each week's reflection flows. The final week of Advent: "Two worlds apart, come …
Advent
Meeting Hopes and Fears
Entering this Advent season with acute aches and chronic longings, we’re drawn to the ready gifts offered by A Rocha Arts partners. Lyric expressions taken from recently-released works serve as a spring from which each week’s reflection flows. The Third Week of Advent: Bethlehem by Kellie …
Oh Bethlehem! Oh Austin!
Entering this Advent season with acute aches and chronic longings, we’re drawn to the ready gifts offered by A Rocha Arts partners. Lyric expressions taken from recently-released works serve as a spring from which each week’s reflection flows. The Second Week of Advent: "Oh sweet town of …
Blessing The In-Between Spaces
By Mark McRenyolds, A Rocha USA's SoCal Project Director As profoundly expressed in Dr. David Taylor's entry, artists help us in seasons that don't make sense. Entering this Advent season with acute aches and chronic longings, we're drawn to the ready gifts offered by A Rocha Arts partners. Lyric …
He Rules the World with Truth and Grace
As we celebrate Christmas, we are wrapping up our reflections on “Joy to the World,” considering what Christ's return will mean for all of creation. We hope you’ll join us. by Kenny Benge He rules the world with truth and grace And makes the nations prove The glories of His …
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To Make His Blessings Flow
This Advent, we are reflecting on “Joy to the World” as we wonder what it means to wait with creation in this season. We hope you’ll join us. by Anna Wilde No more let sin and sorrows grow Nor thorns infest the ground He comes to make his blessings flow Far as the curse is found Invasive …
Let Men Their Songs Employ
This Advent, we are reflecting on “Joy to the World” as we wonder what it means to wait with creation in this season. We hope you’ll join us. by Samuel Adams Joy to the Earth, the Savior reigns, let men their songs employ. While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat the …
Prepare Him Room
This Advent, we are reflecting on “Joy to the World” as we wonder what it means to wait with creation in this season. We hope you’ll join us. by Bethany Winz Joy to the world! The Lord is come: let earth receive her King! Let every heart prepare him room and heaven and nature …
Preparing for Peace
by Robert Campbell It’s my job to get the boxes out of the garage. That’s the unofficial beginning of our Christmas preparations. Usually, I will put the lights on the tree before we add the ornaments together. The children work at putting the garlands above the doorways and the mama begins one …
In the Fullness of Time
As fall turns to winter, the earth goes to sleep. Trees lose their leaves, annuals die, and perennials lay dormant. Last season’s leaf litter covers the bare patches of soil in the garden bed, and we wait for spring to return. Still, under the ice and snow and bitter cold, the ground is teeming …