DAILY PHOTO CHALLENGE - ADVENT 2025
WHAT DO YOU FEAR? Insisting on HOPE this ADVENT
FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT
WORDS: LONGING (Day 1), BREAK IN (Day 2), FEAR (Day 3), POSSIBILITY (Day 4), PRESENCE (Day 5), & MARVEL (Day 6)
LONGING… God in the Kitchen
I called home my first semester of college. I told my mom I was fine,
but I was homesick. She must have heard the truth in my voice.
The ache ate at me. It was a long, slow song, a million tiny ants
slurping the juice from a peach. I was tender and bruised,
in the doldrums of it all. But she could hear all of that.
So three states away,
she preheated the oven. Three states away,
she tossed blueberries in a thin layer of flour. Three states away,
she dusted a layer of streusel over the soft peaks
of a dozen warm muffins. And three days later,
I unboxed a package from home—
a dozen blueberry muffins, a love letter with my name on it,
a reminder that I was not alone.
If you’re running out of hope, count to three.
God is in the kitchen. She’s just waiting for yeast to rise.
Poem by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed
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BREAKING IN…
2 photos of the slips my daughter took from my Dads Christmas cactus before he died just over a year ago.
Here we are a year later and the blooms are "breaking in" the first photo was taken Nov. 23 and the 2nd photo Dec. 1st. submitted by Ann
FEAR…The road in between
Snow comes to us in the colour of white, representative of peace, It can cause fear, but from a different perspective it can be a marvel. submitted by Dana
POSSIBILTY… My grandmother’s hands teaching me how to make bread.
submitted by Charlotte
PRESENCE… MAKING ROOM FOR CHRISTMAS submitted by Martha
MARVEL… On Island Rock Head, submitted by Cheri
MARVEL…We watched this mum from our kitchen window looking after her twins and she licked one of them clean, submitted by Maureen
