Advent is a season that speaks softly to me, encouraging me to listen, observe, and reflect in quietness. My daily ritual is to light a candle in the darkness of each Advent morning, read aloud a poem or quotation, then sit quietly.
From November 28-December 24 , I will share a piece of writing that I have collected or written, which resonates with my own spiritual journey at this time of year. I hope that their words may be resources for your Advent practices. If you have Advent rituals and/or writing to add, I encourage you to leave them in the comments section for the rest of us to read.
Peace in this time of waiting and discovery.
Twylla

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Peace

 Quotation from Black Elk, Medicine Man, Lakota Sioux
Advent meditation
St. John's Episcopal Church
Jamaica Plain, MA

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their one-ness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere; it is within each of us.  This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.  The second peace is that which is made between two individuals and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.

                                          Badlands National Park - South Dakota
                       Source: U.S. National Park Service; Photo Credit David McConeghy                  
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