Comments on: The Dark Nights of Advent https://www.realisticliving.org/the-dark-nights-of-advent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-dark-nights-of-advent Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Brady Mansmann https://www.realisticliving.org/the-dark-nights-of-advent/#comment-537 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:37:17 +0000 https://realisticliving.org/New/the-dark-nights-of-advent/#comment-537 You made some great points there. I did a search around the topic and discovered most folks will agree with
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]]> By: Harold Slater https://www.realisticliving.org/the-dark-nights-of-advent/#comment-510 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:04:03 +0000 https://realisticliving.org/New/the-dark-nights-of-advent/#comment-510 Gene:
Thank you for this spin on Advent. I remember the woman who told me that I wrecked Christmas for her family by insisting on Advent focus rather than the superficial cheer of Hallothanksgetamus (the stretch between Halloween to Christmas Day). Not only do we avoid the slimy awfulness of the world and our complicity, we devalue the Reality of the Light and only dwell one sentimental day on it before we are back to post-Christmas sales and a new year of sentimental wish-dream resoutions with no practice or discipline to stay open to the Light in the New Year. Forward none the less.

]]> By: Edwin Waters https://www.realisticliving.org/the-dark-nights-of-advent/#comment-73 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:31:54 +0000 https://realisticliving.org/New/the-dark-nights-of-advent/#comment-73 Dear Gene,
You go, guy! I, and I anticipate and hope, many others, are now positioned over 40,000 fathoms of warm jello.
There are two hurdles I had to jump or wiggle around or through, it seems, in the first and the last paragraphs.
1. “prepare . . . . in” seems awkward. I expected “prepare . . . . for”.
2. Fire and soil may be a mixed metaphor. I think I know what you mean, but I’m stuck on it. So, in some of my words: “May the dark nights of Advent catalyze [occasion] the transformation of you and yours to [tinder,] kindling[, and fuel] for that tiny candlelight of Christmas that will become a fire upon the Earth.” ‘Kindling’ also means “birth”, as when doe rabbits kindle, so adds a layer of connotation, but I think using all three suggested words is stronger.

Best regards, in terror and tranquillity, edwin

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