December 23rd

Things so far…

• Trust. The radical bravery of trusting another person

• The beauty people give out all day long by being themselves

• Robin’s endless tenacity

• Her soft fur

• A God who makes soft fur

• Things growing, seeds, trees, sweetpeas

• Friends

• Friends

• Friends

• Surreptitious art for everyone

• Penguins on postboxes

• The choice to make things beautiful

• Delivering cake

• Christmas carols

• Anger and Courage

• Fingers sticky with Christingle orange juice

• A chaos of Christmas lights

• Young voices keeping going in the face of injustice

• Storm battered potted plants

• Kind churches

• Flutes in caves

• A woman bearing the unbearable world

• A man telling the unbearable truth

• Snow

• Hope in things being made beautiful

• Hope being made

• Hope in All Things That Are Made

• Hope in the space in between

• This Christmas card

[Image description: the front of a Christmas card, maybe lino printed. Mostly black, with white flakes of snow and a white dog. The dog has huge ears and a Christmas hat.]