{"id":56545,"date":"2016-12-02T03:34:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T03:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cc_lydia_bailey-advent_is_about_the_radiance_when_god_comes_close\/"},"modified":"2016-12-02T03:34:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T03:34:15","slug":"cc_lydia_bailey-advent_is_about_the_radiance_when_god_comes_close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56545","title":{"rendered":"(CC)  Lydia Bailey&#8211;Advent is about &#34;the radiance when God comes close&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today\u2019s action:<\/p>\n<p>Make a place in your home <br \/>where you will think about Advent<br \/>&#038; make it special<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LPLXCF9YOx\">https:\/\/t.co\/LPLXCF9YOx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4eKrhNk812\">pic.twitter.com\/4eKrhNk812<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LoveLifeLiveAdvent (@LiveAdvent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiveAdvent\/status\/804229843474939904\">December 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Is this not what Advent is about? God is coming to reside in the intimate particularity of our everyday lives.<\/p>\n<p>Standing on the porch at home, my mind went to other settings: the bitter lot of Syrian refugees\u201d\u201dthey were under this moon. I thought of those at the homeless shelter in Cleveland where I work, having one last cigarette outside before lights off. Moonlight was touching their foreheads in a tender way. Beyond them were empty warehouses, the moon defining the scarred rooftops of the city before reaching the expanse of Lake Erie and shining brilliantly on waves.<\/p>\n<p>My entire family went back for the 11 p.m. service. We were a tiny cluster leaving the church, walking to our car and driving home with moonlight enveloping us. After everyone had gone to bed, I stood out in the backyard. No wind, not a sound\u201d\u201dexcept something like the sound of the ground absorbing moisture. This was not an empty silence but the quiet being of rocks, ferns, moss, the roots of trees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/blogs\/archive\/2016-12\/god-coming-close-casts-radiance-ordinary\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s action: Make a place in your home where you will think about Advent&#038; make it specialhttps:\/\/t.co\/LPLXCF9YOx pic.twitter.com\/4eKrhNk812 &mdash; LoveLifeLiveAdvent (@LiveAdvent) December 1, 2016 Is this not what Advent is about? God is coming to reside in the intimate particularity<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56545\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,574,187,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-advent","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}