Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

This album is amazing and refreshing. This guy isolated himself in the wilderness of Wisconsin and recorded this album. Bon Iver is a play on a French phrase meaning 'good winter' and while listening to these tunes it has most definitely been a good winter. For those of you who think God speaks only in a church, check out this album and be blessed.

Asleep in the light

These are a few lyrics from the Keith Green song Asleep in the light. When you let these words sink in its a hard thing to hear. I am realizing that God is not concerned with my comfort so much as she is my faithful obedience. Not an easy thing to learn....God have mercy....

The world is sleeping in the dark

That the church just can't fight

Cause it's asleep in the light

How can you be so dead

When you've been so well fed

Jesus rose from the grave

And you, you can't even get out of bed

Oh, Jesus rose from the dead

Come on, get out of your bed

Second Sunday of Advent

This weeks theme for Advent is love.

Sunday Morning Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer:

Merciful God, who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, that we may greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

A prayer attributed to St. Francis:

Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.