Expecting the Light: An Advent Retreat

Nov
4:00pm
Expecting the Light: An Advent Retreat

By Sarah Clarkson
In Advent, we open our hearts to the real coming of God; into the world, into our darkness, into our own broken hopes. To welcome and expect his arrival, to greet his coming with trust and anticipation is both our discipline and our comfort in this season. But sometimes we need  space and quiet,  an encounter with beauty, a touch of companionship, in order to gather the courage we need to enter into that holy expectation.  What I hope to offer here is a space of hushed camaraderie in which we can find the focus and beauty we need in order to open our hearts to God's bright coming.
Through image, poetry, story, and liturgy, I want to pursue and dwell in the bright joy of God's actual arrival in our own aching hearts. Join me for a series of four sessions in which we will use great poems and stories to explore four aspects of Advent expectation:
Yearning: allowing ourselves to hunger
Annunciation: trust and tension
Preparation: homemaking of the soul
Welcome: the holy work of celebration
Each session will be offered  as a live event you can join at the time of recording but will remain available after so that you can watch whenever you want. The sessions will last around half an hour each. You could join the sessions each day, or portion them out one a week for the rest of Advent.
Each session will also include a  set of notes with quotes, art, discussion questions, Scripture, and ideas for how to engage the topic further through the arts.
(A few scholarships are available upon request.)
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