This year...

"This year needs Advent;

needs a keeping space

Of silence and of darkness nearing down,

Someplace where all that can be still is stilled...

Where there is less of me and more of grace.

There in the waiting moments you have willed

Lies healing for an often-wounded soul,

The deep recovery of who I am

Where every whispered longing to be whole I ever breathed

is finally fulfilled."

--Jennifer Lynn Woodruff

This year

I need Advent...

a keeping space

This year

already for several weeks now

I am preparing

for this keeping space

I anticipate 

all that He is inviting me to

this Christmas season

I welcome

what I am 

here and now

growing into