Sunday: Strange Mercy
“You can’t conceive, nor can I,
the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”
—Graham Greene
Advent III: Bright and Wild
This is the irrational season
Where love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with reason
There’d have been no room for the child.
Madeleine L’Engle
Sunday: Advent II
I saw a stable, low and very bare,
A little child in a manger.
The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care,
To men He was a stranger,
The safety of the world was lying there,
And the world’s danger.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
Sunday: Beautiful Questions
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
—e. e. cummings
