Advent Devotional for December 20th

"I will lead the blind by a road they do not know, by paths they have not known I will guide them.  I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground.  These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them." - Isaiah 42:16

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Our highest truths are but half-truths,

Think not to settle down forever in any truth,

Make use of it as tent in which to pass a summer's night.

But build no house for it, or it will be your tomb.

When you first have an inkling of its insufficiency

And begin to decry a dim counter-truth looming up beyond,

Then weep not, but give thanks,
It is the Lord's voice whispering:
"Take up your bed and walk."

-A.J. Balfour

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"It is the road to God that matters most,

the ragged road, the wood."

Gillian Allnut, The Road Home

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May we see just one horizon further into the mystery of your presence among us.

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