This A is for Advent Thursday is brought to us by the letter Bb.
In my preAdvent reading by Emily Lund and Shannon Dackus, I was inspired to rethink the words we use for Advent.
Faith, Hope, Love, and Peace are the words we use most often for the four weeks of Advent. These are very good words.
Emily and Shannon offered some new words: Surprise. Await. Remain. Pause. And may I add, today, Beauty.
It’s unexpectedly good to have a pause in New Mexico this Advent. Advent in northern New Mexico was a rhythm of my life so very many years, and isn’t it a gift when we can return to something and see how much we missed it, and, yes, need it for our soul’s health?
Part of the Advent pause in Taos is how very easy it is to find beauty, particularly in pause mode. Beauty is a need for my soul, and so I am filling beyond the brim.
Today we are invited to take an Advent pause and remain in the great beauty that is already about us. Quotidian beauty everywhere.
House of Grace 
I know Shannon Dycus! Beautiful writing.
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