Christmas tree with gifts underneath.
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“No good tree bears bad fruit (...) for each tree is known by its own fruit. (...) The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, (...) for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.
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Fruit protects and propagates the next generation. May we be fruit to anyone who needs succor in this season.
Thank you to everyone who has participated and followed along! Merry Christmas!
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Image: A figurine of Mary standing between two lit purple candles. Text: Fruit. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Luke 1:42b.
Fruit
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A page of an orchestral score with a fortissimo melody setting Faust’s line “blicket auf,” big punching chords with which the choir sings “Komm,” and rippling arpeggios in harp and maybe piano (I’ve forgotten, and instrumental designations are cropped out of image).
From Mahler, Symphony No. 8 (Vienna: Universal, 1911), second movement, near the end, at Faust’s big “blicket auf” moment. #Come #AdventWord #adventword2024
Bronze, ornate doorknob on oak door.
24 Come ⚓️
Come in
Come out
Come together
Come through
Come on
Come home.
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Image: An olive wood chalice and paten, with a small loaf of bread on it, are set on a white cloth in front of an icon, The Trinity by Andrei Rublev. Text: Come. Then I said, 'See, God, I have come to do your will, O God' (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)." Hebrews 10:7
Come
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Image: Bright sunlight shining behind the stem of a plant with a couple young leaves. Text: Hear, O Shepherd of Israel, leading Joseph like a flock; shine forth, you that are enthroned upon the cherubim. Psalm 80:1. Shine.
Shine
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The bottom right-hand of a page in a hymnal showing the hymn; lyrics included are the phrases "I' goin'-a let it shine" and "shine, let it shine. (let it shine)
From "This Little Light of Mine," _The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal_ (Charlotte, NC: A.M.E. Zion Publishing House, 1999), 617. #Shine #AdventWord #AdventWord2024
Close-up of an advent wreath with four light golden candle and a Christmas tree in the background.
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The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Numbers 6:25-26
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Image: A protest sign reading "Love Wins." Text: Lifted. He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly. Luke 1:52.
Lifted.
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Circus with a circus artist performing suspended on a rope.
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Wonderfully uplifting family outing to the circus today
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Picture looking up at trees, perspective puts a pine tree on the top of the picture so it looks like looking up the trunk of the tree from a lying down position. Blue sky and green leaves filling the rest of the image.
⚓️22 Lifted
When was the last time you lifted your gaze? Pulled away from the immediate and looked toward the constant? I know I don’t do it often enough.
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Image of the hymn, cropped to show part of the two systems of the chorus. Highlights include split vocals where the soprano line retains the "Love Lifted Me" melody while ATB have an "even me" harmonized countermelody.
From "Love Lifted Me," _The New Praiseworthy for the Church and Sunday School_, (Chicago: Excell, 1916), 61. #Lifted #AdventWord #AdventWord2024
Art installation at Kew Gardens
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“Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy."
Matthew 5:7
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Image: The altar of a dark chapel, set with candles and a cross, back-lit by bright light shining through a stained-glass window behind it. Text: God has mercy on those who fear him in every generation. Luke 1:50. Mercy.
Mercy.
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The second and third verses of "And Can It Be," text only. The word "Adam" is printed in italics.
From "And Can It Be That I Should Gain," in John and Charles Wesley, _Hymns and Sacred Poems_ (London: Strahan, 1739), 117-118. #Mercy #AdventWord #AdventWord2024
Image: Several small multicolored glass crosses hung together on a wall, in the shape of a large cross. Text: Love. The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing as on a day of festival. Zephaniah 3:17.
Love.
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Four kids putting their heads together talking.
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Love these four! 🥰
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The first verse and a half of the hymn, printed without musical notation in a lyrics-only hymnal with the suggested tune Westminster (most will know this hymn with the tune Hyfrydol or Beecher).
From "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling," _A Pocket Hymn-Book_ (Philadelphia: Tuckniss, 1797), 80. #Love #AdventWord #AdventWord2024
Image: Two layers of clouds, separated by a thin band of blue sky. Text: At that time I will bring you home, at the time when I gather you; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the Lord. Zephaniah 3:20. Home.
Home.
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Corner of my desk that has a rough wood surface and features a wooden box as a small shelf. On the desk and the shelf is a candle in a glass jar, some Christmas decorations, small cacti, scattered paper, a computer mouse and keyboard, and a coffee cup.
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I'm so excited to finally have my very own desk in our small home.y Christmas gift to myself.
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Kitchen counter covered in baking supplies with kid measuring ingredients into a red stand mixer.
19 Home
Home means the people and the hearth we share. Where we break bread together (after baking it).
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Lyrics, without music, to the first verse and a half of "Come, Thou Fount of Ev'ry Blessing," with the heading "HYMN XLVII" and the subtitle "Desiring to praise worthily." The word "Jesus" is printed in italics in the bottom right hand of the page.
From "Come, Thou Fount of Ev'ry Blessing," _A Choice Selection of Hymns, in Which Are Some Never Before Printed_ (Philadelphia, 1782), 59. #Home #AdventWord #AdventWord2024
Image: A green field of corn stalks under a blue sky. Text: Gather. His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire. Luke 3:17.
Gather
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A table at a restaurant with lots of small plates of colourful dishes.
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Isn't it one of the greatest joys to gather around a table with yoummy food? (Especially if, as in this case, one doesn't have to prepare it or clear up themself!)
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The cropped image of the hymn shows the first halves of the chorus's two systems, showing the phrases "Yes, we'll gather at the river" and "Gather with the saints at the river." After the first instance of "river" there's a lonely piano marking above the soprano line, the only dynamic marking on the page.
From "Shall We Gather At the River," _The Cokesbury Hymnal" (Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1923), 215. #Gather #AdventWord #AdventWord2024
Small, Asian-style, green teapot with four cups with different color ceramic linings: green, yellow, two blue.
18 Gather ⚓️
Let us gather
Let us fill our cups and overflow
Let us gather
Let us drink tea and stories
Let us gather
Let us leave with empty cups and filled souls
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Image: An aumbry, with the candle lit above it, in front of stained glass windows. Text: Trust. Surely, it is God who saves me; I will trust in him and not be afraid. Isaiah 12:2.
Trust.
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