Adverbs for Advent: Quiet Reflections for a Noisy Time
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Marilyn McEntyre
Marilyn McEntyre is the award-winning author of several books on language and faith, including Where the Eye Alights, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict, When Poets Pray, Make a List, Word by Word, and What's in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause, winner of the 2015 Christianity Today book award in spirituality.
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Adverbs for Advent - Marilyn McEntyre
Adverbs for Advent
Quiet Reflections for a Noisy Time
Marilyn McEntyre
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Quiet Reflections for a Noisy Time
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Introduction
Chapter 1: Live Generously
Chapter 2: Live Boldly
Chapter 3: Live Vigilantly
Chapter 4: Live Attentively
Chapter 5: Live Imaginatively
Chapter 6: Live Healthily
Chapter 7: Live Beautifully
Chapter 8: Live Simply
Chapter 9: Live Expectantly
Chapter 10: Live Wholeheartedly
Chapter 11: Live Prudently
Chapter 12: Live Globally
Chapter 13: Live Locally
Chapter 14: Live Playfully
Chapter 15: Live Faithfully
Chapter 16: Live Gratefully
Chapter 17: Live Mercifully
Chapter 18: Live Patiently
Chapter 19: Live Deliberately
Chapter 20: Live Mindfully
Chapter 21: Live Spaciously
Chapter 22: Live Kindly
Chapter 23: Live Lightly
Chapter 24: Live Harmoniously
Chapter 25: Live Courageously
Chapter 26: Live Repentantly
Chapter 27: Live wisely
Chapter 28: Live Lovingly
Introduction
Despite tinsel, noise, and incessant invitations to shop, the weeks of Advent are still, for many of us, a time set apart for reflection. The days on the Advent calendar are marked not only by little doors behind which small treats lie hidden but by the doors we open onto inner spaces where we may find quiet and renewal as the year draws to its end, in encounters with the indwelling Spirit.
The daily reflections in this little book (28 of them, since Advent season varies from 25 to 28 days in the liturgical calendar) are focused on the ancient question, How, then, shall we live?
Each of them is rooted in experience, encounter, or a particular passage from Scripture or poetry that has seemed to me to address that question. They link the historical moment in which we live to the long history of faithful living and spiritual seeking that precedes us.
In this season, the dark time of the year,
may we dwell daily in light no darkness can overcome.
1
Live Generously
A dear friend and teacher offered me this last reminder as she died: Live boldly. Live generously.
She had encouraged me through many of the uncertainties of early adulthood and offered this challenging advice not as an admonition so much as an invitation to a life, I would say, a lot like hers. She modeled those virtues in the extra time she spent with struggling students (her patients,
she called them) and in the simple meals she served on a small table in her tiny apartment and in the imagination she brought to conversations that ranged from dream interpretation to the history of a Dutch river to the hidden lives of women in the rural South.
The word generous comes to us through medieval French where it was linked to nobility. The gentry were those who could afford to spread their wealth. The best of them believed in noblesse oblige—the obligation of the rich to care for the poor. To be generous in that sense means to live with an awareness of how richly we have been blessed—so richly that we can afford to spread that wealth, and should. One of the hymns I remember singing as a child proclaimed in a lusty refrain, I’m a child of the King.
It’s an antique image for an abiding truth: that we are not only creatures of a divine Creator but more intimately, children of a loving God who made us dependent on each other so that in giving and receiving we might learn something of the divine life in which we’re invited to participate.
The deeper root of generous goes back to the Latin genus—race or stock. That broader meaning suggests that the practice of generosity appropriately reflects our relatedness to one another as members of a human family, made from the soil (humus), borne in our mothers’ bodies, and deeply dependent on each