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truly remarkable.

All week, an unfamiliar excitement has been stirring.  I’ve sensed it, but found no reason for it.  It’s too soon to be caught up in the glimmer of Advent.  There was excitement about the election, surely, but that’s not it either…  Pastorally, a bit of a tricky week, so no sense of excitement there.  A good week for friends:  phone calls all one evening, and a real-live-person on Wednesday.   But that’s not it either.

Then today, I figured it out.

It’s the chaffinch.

Captains of fifty with their fifty, swooping in, feeding, fluttering, dancing before my window with all the speed of light glinting on water.  Their energy is contagious:  the local equivalent of the buzz of the city.  Much needed sources of joy.

Molly-cat is delighted too.

It’s time to decide if the SEC Advent blog Love Blooms Bright will return again this year.

I am looking for six volunteers who are willing to ‘take a day’ for the four weeks of Advent.  Your job is to ensure there is a post on your day.   That means you can write something, quote something, or offer an image; or, you can find someone to write for you that day.

We also welcome those who wish to contibute one or more posts, but who do not want the responsibilty of ‘a day a week’.

If you would like to help, please respond in the comments or email me.

If you enjoyed reading the blog and are hoping it returns, we’d be glad to hear that too.

Please pass word on to anyone who might be interested.  As you know, I haven’t been blogging much lately, and inevitably some readers have drifted away.

Dear God, please bless Barak Obama (with the presidency)
and John McCain (with a long an happy retirement).