Newsletter for November 28

1 of 4 candles lit for the first Sunday of Advent

The First Sunday of Advent

"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting."
— T.S. Eliot, East Coker

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