Advent: Christmastide Happenings: The Already, not Yetness of it All

The Growing Edge

All around us worlds are dying and new worlds are being born;
All around us life is dying and life is being born;
The fruit ripens on the tree;
The roots are silently at work in the darkness
of the earth
Against the time when there shall be new leaves, fresh blossoms, green fruit.
Such is the growing edge!
It is the extra breath from the exhausted lung,
The one more thing to try when all else has failed,
The upward reach of life when weariness closes in upon all endeavor.
This is the basis of hope in moments of despair,
The incentive to carry on when times are out of joint
When people have lost their reason; the source of confidence.
When worlds crash and dreams whiten to ash.
The birth of a child- life's most dramatic answer to death-
This is the Growing Edge incarnate,
Look well to the growing edge!

-Howard Thurman,
"The Mood of Christmas"



Wed. December 17th -Christmas Love Feast
Where:.1264 Everett (Highlands/ Big White house)
Molly & Dan's abode
When: 6:30-8:00pm
What: A time of advent reflections, poems, inner silence
& communal meal...followed by informal "hang-time"
Please note:
No "Just Be" December 24th Christmas Eve...
or Wednesday December 31st New Year's Eve...

2009 Happenings:

*January 7th - Wednesday evening
Epiphany Celebration
"A Season of Light"
Location: TBA/ soon to be posted on blog..
(see blog info below).

*January 16th -Friday evening
"Catalytic Connection"
Music with Troubadors of Divine Bliss
"listening room" style
107 Ewing Ave. (Creative Diversity Studio)
Louisville, KY 40206