Visual artist and writer, Jan Richardson, offers an Advent blog worth visiting, The Advent Door. Each day's post includes a collage, like a door, created to open up something from the scriptures and stories of Advent. I only discovered this blog today through a blurb in Image Update, but hope to set aside time to catch up on her meditations that started on Advent Eve. Jan is the author and editor of a book I purchased a number of years ago, Sacred Journeys: A Woman's Book of Daily Prayer. I didn't know anything about her at the time I bought the book and hadn't tracked her since. Looking at her website this afternoon I see that she's been busy!
“Thou takest the pen – and the lines dance. Thou takest the flute – and the notes shimmer.
Thou takest the brush – and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond where Thou art.
How, then, can I hold anything back from Thee.”
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
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