Christmas is for hoping in Christ’s return
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Seth Wieck | December 24, 2010
“Whenever there is disaster,” he said, “it means a new day, a new life.” When he saw the tree decorated with the faces of the dead, he cried, he said. But he was where he belonged, he said. “We don’t have anything else,” he said, “just to pray and continue.” – A young Iraqi Christian […]
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Journey of the Magi
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Seth Wieck | December 20, 2010
By T.S. Eliot (Follow the link and listen to him read it). ‘A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.’ And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the […]
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Advent Sonnet #2 – Romans 1
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Seth Wieck | December 7, 2010
Romans 1:3-4 O Messiah, Your prism mysteriesHave scattered the light ‘cross my feeble eyes.In my blinking, I’ve seen the strange storiesOf how one man born can be fathered twice. Son of Man, son of Adam, David’s son:Death spread to all men because we all sinned.You, grafted in, donned our skin to be undoneLike the oven-fired […]
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