Weekly Inspiration (12/13/23)

Bonus "Holiday Recipe"

“I have a recipe written in my mother's handwriting that she gave to me many years ago. I placed it on my refrigerator so I can see it frequently. It is one that anyone can make and I encourage everyone to try it.”
-Ellen Lukanc

Preparation:
Take love and loyalty, and mix
it thoroughly with faith. Blend it
with tenderness, kindness, and
understanding. Sprinkle abundantly
with laughter. Bake it with
sunshine.
Serve daily with geneerous helpings!

Ingredients:
•4 cups of Love
•2 cups of Loyalty
•3 cups of Forgiveness
•1 cup of Friendship
•5 spoons of Hope
•2 spoons of Tenderness
•4 quarts of Faith
•1 barrel of Laughter

Poem of the Week

A Reading from a poem by Rowan Williams

Advent Calendar

He will come like last leaf ’s fall.
One night when the November wind
has flayed the trees to bone, and earth wakes
choking on the mould,
the soft shroud's folding.

He will come like the frost.
One morning when the shrinking earth opens
on mist, to find itself
arrested in the net
of alien, sword-set beauty.

He will come like dark.
One evening when the bursting red
December sun draws up the sheet
and penny-masks its eye to yield
the star-snowed fields of sky.

He will come, will come.
Will come like crying in the night,
like blood, like breaking,
as the earth writhes to toss him free.
He will come like child.