Advent of Innocence

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Advent Painting - Piercing the Darkness

Advent of Innocence
Today is the first Sunday of Advent in the Christian Faith. Emmanuel, God with us, was the prophesy of the promised Messiah. A time when God himself would take on the human embodiment to show us what it would be like to live and love in a life contradictory to the norms and darkness of the day. It is interesting to me that the Messiah came to us in the innocence of a tiny baby. The future life and sacrifice of Jesus brought forgiveness, grace, and peace to all who choose to believe.

The Word made flesh
Advent of innocence brings
Light piercing darkness

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Painting: Dwight L. Roth

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18 thoughts on “Advent of Innocence”

  6. I was very struck with your painting – the colours and the vertical crack – ‘that’s how the light gets in’ as Mr Cohen once said.

    Good reminder that it is the Advent of Jesus as the calendars are just full of chocolates – perhaps the babe as sign that faith had to begin all over again.

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