Advent - Life on the Road Less Traveled

December 18, 2010

Advent Blessing for Extraordinary Moms

Last Sunday was our annual Advent Tea, and at my table was a woman who had adopted two children. She had heard me speak on Al Kresta’s program about the Extraordinary Moms Network, and said she’d hoped I was still helping adoptive parents. It seems she was looking for a little support involving some changes her daughters were going through right now. To be honest, I’ve become a bit gun-shy, and haven’t been writing as extensively about the subject of adoption for a while. For one thing, I recently resigned from the board of the foster/adoption agency because I didn’t agree with their recruiting practices, […]

November 26, 2008

Wee Cook Wednesday: Rose Sunday Tea Cake

In just a few more days — right after Thanksgiving — we will be entering the season of Advent. These four weeks before Christmas are about more than buying presents and baking cookies … They are about getting our hearts soft and warm with thanksgiving, ready to receive the Newborn King! Every year on the third Sunday of Advent, I host a special tea party at my house for a group of truly extraordinary friends. We met when we were all still single … a dozen years later, three of us are married, and three have become adoptive parents. One hosts an exchange student every year. Each […]

December 21, 2007

Leap for Joy … with Compassion

The voice of my beloved!Behold, he comes,leaping upon the mountains,bounding over the hills.By beloved is like a gazelle,or a young stag.Behold, there he stands behind our wall,gazing in at the windowslooking through the lattice.My beloved speaks and says to me:Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away;For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone…. (Song of Songs 2:8-12) It seems like a strange reading, given where we are in the liturgical calendar (so close to Christmas). And yet, the Gospel reading gives us a hint (Luke 1:39ff). A young woman, full of life and wonder, hastens toward her dear, infertile […]