Advent 2015

-

I have developed the practice over the last few years of posting daily to this blog during Advent. Christmas and I have a love-hate relationship.   I love its spiritual meaning  but struggle with the stresses of finishing up the semester and a sense of darkness around that underlies all the glitz.  Shopping gives me a palpable emotion of hopelessness, that we are trying to fill a void with holiday trappings but the void gets bigger the more we try and with every passing year.  I realize some of that is the lack of sunshine and childhood memories and the materialism. 

So I realized a while back that the only way to combat this semi-despair is to celebrate Advent rather than Christmas.  So I will start that Sunday, and hope you will join me and share these and post to your blogs, feeds, etc.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Kallman's Syndrome: The Secret Best Kept

-
I went to my cardiologist yesterday.   Every year I have to wear a Holter monitor for a day because of a heart ablation I had in 2007.   If you don’t know what a Holter monitor is, it’s a 24-hour mobile, wires-hanging-off-your-body EKG.   The nurse practitioner saw me, (not the doctor, which is ok because his voice puts me to sleep).   She was very sweet.   She asked me if I was still taking Estradiol and Progesterin.   “No,” I said. “I’ve totally gone off those.   I was on them for a very long time and I wanted to be sure to stop.” What I didn’t tell her is how long I actually had taken those hormones.   37 years.   I started with HRT when I was 17 because I have Kallman’s Syndrome.   You may never meet a person who has this condition.   It only affects 1 in 10,000 people (or 1 in 86,000, according to one source) so that’s quite a range and far more males have it than females (as do most neg...
Read more

Suicide in the West, Part II

-
Wanted to share these links. http://www.breakpoint.org/2018/06/dr-aaron-kheriaty-churchs-response-mental-illness-suicide-epidemic/?utm_source=Colson+Center+Master+List&utm_campaign=5d34d157db-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_BP+Daily_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_84bd2dc76d-5d34d157db-6584513 https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/08/dying-of-despair?utm_source=Colson+Center+Master+List&utm_campaign=5d34d157db-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_BP+Daily_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_84bd2dc76d-5d34d157db-6584513 https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastors/2013/april-online-only/addressing-depression-and-suicide-in-your-church.html?utm_source=Colson+Center+Master+List&utm_campaign=5d34d157db-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_BP+Daily_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_84bd2dc76d-5d34d157db-6584513 I live with someone who suffers from depression, something I am blessedly untouched by, largely.  This is real. 
Read more