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This Advent the beauty of poetry has helped us prepare for Christmas, focusing our thoughts. Another line from a poem this week guides us to reflect on the “birthday of the light,” and our need to reflect that light, who is the Lord, in our lives and our darkened world.

In addition to the businesses we will be helping this year through Giving Tuesday, we are also going to support 3 more business in Iraq in time for Christmas. A new shop being constructed in the town of Quaraqosh, owned by Amer Kheder, supporting 4 people, an agricultural and livestock......

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We have some good news from a couple of the businesses you have helped in Lebanon where things are very tough. Our friend Tarek Kheir in the beautiful mountain town of Douma, has bought another cow to help with his small dairy business. When we visited in June his other......

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The mystery of our salvation in Christ is that it is freely offered: we have the divinely-given capacity to accept or reject. As we enter the Third Week of Advent, we ponder on that mystery, and what can move our stony hearts to accept His offer of love.

We are told that Advent is a time of “active waiting,” which sounds odd. Silence plays a part, but that waiting is more like the Virgin Mary at the Annunciation. This week we ponder how we can incorporate stillness in this time when most of the world is far from......

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