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"Advent – A Time to Look Closely,"
and
"Advent – A Time to Brace, or Embrace?"
Those are are the titles of my latest blog posts, both on - Dec. 16th
Advent is a preparatory period for spiritual preparation in the weeks prior to Christmas, and involves the four Sundays prior to Dec. 25th.
How do you prepare? Is it a period filled with frenetic, helter-skelter activity that dumps you at the bottom of an exhausted depression? Do you avoid it? Or even believe that Christians ought not to celebrate Christmas -- that it's unscriptural to do so? Perhaps you do believe it's O.K. with God for you to celebrate the Birth of Christ. Do you take some quiet moments to contemplate the significance of what the Incarnation of God in the person of Jesus Christ means?
Those are several aspects that I've found myself being called on to consider, this time around.
New to Raise the Gaze? I invite you to browse the pages and former posts, and be free to leave a comment. Thank you. Along with putting up information of some of my writing endeavours, I hope and pray that the inspirational orientation will be of some value to you.
Also posted as of Dec. 16/09:
New Words to Bless and Prayer Tho't (Bits An' Pieces page)
From the original song lyrics file: "Wonderful Counsellor" (Poetic Verse & Lyrics page.) Posted Dec. 16/09.
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Check out TWG (The Word Guild) Canadian Authors Who Are Christian Blog (URL below). An expanded version of "Advent -- Time to Look Closely" was Peter's latest TWG blog article, posted Dec. 07/09. The previous was posted Nov. 10/09, and titled: "Tip of the Rose" www.twgauthors.blogspot.com/ THANK YOU for stopping by at Raise the Gaze. Christmas is Coming! – Real Fast!!! See Book Info page for Special Christmas price on Parables from the Pond Christian author Laura Davis posted a review of Parables from the Pond, and an author interview with me about the book (Nov. 25 & 26, 2009) on her site www.authorlauradavis.com . To see it, please Navigate to Laura's Reviews and Interviews page. 
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