Celebrating Abundance Devotions for Advent

includes index and biblioraphy

week One Newness is on its way .........4 Outrageous God .............6 Celebrating the new abundance .............8 The vicious cycle broken ........10 Season of Decrease .......12 The poem : Subversion and summons ............14 Glory in the wilderness .........16 week two Energy at midpoint ......20 The new song ..........22 Transformative solidarity ............24 A secret world of Possibility ......26 An alternative world at hand ..........28 Baffled by Abundance .........30 Hopeful along with the others ...........32 week three The what and the when of the christ child ...........36 A catalog of Newnesses ...........38 The yet on the other side ..........40 A new governance blown against our loss.............42 A dangerous summons .......44 Under new management ......46 Beyond all our expectations ........48 Week Four A love letter concerning a work in Progress .........52 A new Decision ..........54 The fidelity of God ..........56 An intrusiv e absence ......58 Living and thinking in transformative ways ........62 Celebrating the revolution ...........64 A new world birthed ............66 I am about to do a new thing ........68 Prayers for the christmas season No room ...........73 An executive order ..........75 We must do something .........77 Joining the conversation ..........79 What child is this ...............81 Holy news in a so-so village ...........83 Hunkered down in the citadel ..........85 In the winter of our discontent ..................87 A village nine miles away ..........89 Tongue and feet .......91 Adore in Abandonment ......93 Pondering .........95