Week Four Advent Reflection  Micah 5: 1- 4 Psalm 80: 2,3, 15, 16, 18, 19 Hebrews 10: 5 – 10 Luke 1: 39 – 45 Written by Barbara Mass, SLW “Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we will be saved.” That’s the Fourth Sunday Psalm Response. This last week …

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Zephaniah 3: 14-18 Psalm: Isaiah  12: 2-6 Philippians 4: 4-7 Luke 3: 10-18 Written by Luanne Wilhelm, SLW Revitalized Joy. This is what our SLW direction statement says is ours. It’s all of ours. Not just joy, but revitalized joy. This is what this week, indeed all of Advent, is about: Joy. Notice in both …

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Week Two Advent Reflection Written by Ruth Platte, SLW Baruch 5:1 – 9 Psalm 126: 1 – 6 Philippians 1: 4 – 6, 8 – 11 Luke 3:1 – 6 It never ceases to amaze me how creative my nieces and nephews are when they have to give “time outs” to their little ones in …

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Happy Advent! So many people loved our Advent Reflection books and we hope that you will also find our weekly reflections helpful in celebrating this beautiful season. As a theme for the reflections, we choose to focus on the following two imperative calls to our Community: We are called to respond individually, corporately and collaboratively …

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