Last Call for This Year

You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here

Thanks to all of you who gave feedback on this quick survey. It’s been surprisingly consistent and helpful as I plan the next year of The Holy Labor.

If you’d like to join me & the writers of Mothering Spirit for a “virtual happy hour” on Jan. 8th on Zoom to dream about Mothering Spirit’s projects and possibilities for next year, become a patron for only $2/month and I’ll send the invite!

Want a 2-minute prayer? Watch this video of my Christmas reflection from Give Us This Day: “In the beginning was the Word, but what kind? Today the metaphor leaps to life. If we borrowed a page from language textbooks, which Word would Jesus be?”

If you’ve never seen these modern icons by Ivanka Demchuk, Hidden life in Nazareth and Escape to Egypt are prayers in themselves for this week.

Remembering That It Happened Once by Wendell Berry, a poem about the Incarnation breaking into our world again, all the time.

On practicing hope in a high-risk life from Stephanie Duncan Smith at Coffee + Crumbs.

A thoughtful round-up of reflections on what people learned about God in 2022 from Claire Swinarski (and many others).

To the New Year by W.S. Merwin is like light on January trees.

Courtney Martin’s end-of-the-year reflection questions. Our family writes questions like these and fills a bowl with them to ask over dinner on New Year’s Eve. Forever one of my favorite days of the year.

May the turning of tonight’s page bring you peace in places unknown.

"And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us,
new, untouched, full of things that have never been."
(Ranier Maria Rilke)