<html><div><span style="color: #000080; font-size: medium;"><strong>Very beautiful Janice!</strong></span><br><span style="color: #000080; font-size: medium;"><strong>Rose Anne</strong></span><br><br>---------- Original Message ----------<br>From: "Janice Ulangca" <aulangca@stny.rr.com><br>To: "Colleague Dialogue" <Dialogue@wedgeblade.net><br>Subject: [Dialogue] A Conversation with Advent<br>Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:46:06 -0500<br><br></p><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #008000;">To my friends and many teachers/mentors in the ICA community - I continue learn so much from you!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #008000;">Profound gratitude and wishes for a splendid, radiant season.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #008000;">Janice Ulangca</span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Advent:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A coming into being </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">3<sup>rd</sup> definition, Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span></span></p><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #0000ff; font-size: medium;">A Conversation with Advent</span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">O Advent</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">I think you are my favorite</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Of all the seasons in the church year</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Because you ask that I wake up, be vigilant,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">And open to some startling surprise, some wonder</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">That never has existed �til today.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Advent,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beyond the rush, the noisy fun, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the customary words,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">There is a vast and tender silence</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">And I will meet you there.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">At first it may seem boring to be still </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">But slowly in the quietness there will be</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">A radiance, a peace, a profound care.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Advent, I will dare to bring you this year�s pain</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">The darkness, failures and the broken plans.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Perhaps in the stillness</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">With patience and expectancy</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">They may gently be exchanged </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For healing and for hope<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>. . .</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="color: #0000ff;">And it will not be fake</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">To welcome Joy.<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">JU 2012</span></span></p></div></html>
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