The Loneliest Advent of My Life

The idealized Norman Rockwell Christmas — a bourgeois tableau of comfort and consumption — is a distraction. Advent is for the broken, the lost, and the defeated.

Dear friends —

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I hope you’ll journey with me as we welcome the light of Christ into every corner of our lives this season.

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