Advent Devotional for December 15th

Ceiling in St. Patrick's church - Trim, Ireland

"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying Him, and holding fast to Him." - Deuteronomy 30:19

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"Life isn't finished for us yet! We're going to live... Maybe, if we wait a little while longer, we shall find out why we live, why we suffer." - Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters
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"Thou art the Way, the Truth, the Life:

grant us that Way to know,

that Truth to keep, that Life to win,

whose joys eternal flow."

- Psalm 34, translated by Bishop G.W. Doane

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"We bless Thee for our creation, preservation and all the blessings of this life, but above all for Thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory."

-The General Thanksgiving from the Book of Common Prayer

(St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Advent Devotional for 2005)