Comments on: Advent for a New Creation https://allyson.revsawtell.org/advent-for-a-new-creation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advent-for-a-new-creation Resources & reflections by Allyson Sawtell Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:10:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Marti Holmes https://allyson.revsawtell.org/advent-for-a-new-creation/#comment-120 Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:10:52 +0000 https://allyson.revsawtell.org/?p=432#comment-120 Allyson has a wonderful gift with words, but a special skill in pulling me away and causing me to re-examine the words I have said by rote for decades. I found more meaning in this Advent worship than I ever have.

In her Advent for a New Creation, I find tears in my eyes when I read: “We are an Advent people. We are an Advent church. We are living in waiting for something, yearning for something, facing an unknown future. We proclaim hope, we yearn for peace, we still find occasions for joy, and we live as lovers of all God’s creation.”

As Allyson tells us, what follows for four weeks is “both deeply serious, and often playful. They focus on the power of community, and the call to justice and the healing of all creation.”

]]> By: Amy Prater https://allyson.revsawtell.org/advent-for-a-new-creation/#comment-66 Tue, 21 Dec 2021 07:10:56 +0000 https://allyson.revsawtell.org/?p=432#comment-66 I missed weeks 1&2 but so enjoyed and appreciated your beautiful way with words and sense of humor in exploring Joy and Love in weeks 3 & 4 of Advent. Wow, so much to savor, re-read and ponder here!
The following particularly spoke to me:
“This holy season of love calls us to co-create and move towards God’s new creation. It will not be handed to us, a brightly-wrapped gift, but will emerge from the womb of our hard work and tears, our lament and our courage, our tenacity and our laughter.”
Thank you, Allyson.

]]> By: Lisa Eller Davis https://allyson.revsawtell.org/advent-for-a-new-creation/#comment-31 Thu, 02 Dec 2021 15:45:25 +0000 https://allyson.revsawtell.org/?p=432#comment-31 Allyson, The way this acknowledges so many aspects of what to be reverent about is beautiful.
Thanks for your writing and for your perspective!

]]> By: Rev. Nancy Rosas https://allyson.revsawtell.org/advent-for-a-new-creation/#comment-4 Tue, 21 Sep 2021 22:52:28 +0000 https://allyson.revsawtell.org/?p=432#comment-4 Allyson,
I love your Advent for a New creation Liturgies. It offers a wider and contextual perspective to reflect on during the season and invite us to a faithful and active prayer for the Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love for all of creation. I also love your re-writing of Come Thou Expected Jesus that becomes “Come Thou Un-Expected Jesus!”
Thanks for the sharing of your creative gifts!
Paz,

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