Repentance
St John the Baptist
GHIBERTI, Lorenzo
1412-16
Bronze, height: 254 cm
Orsanmichele,
Florence
To
repent is to come to your senses.
It
is not so much something you do
as
something that happens.
True repentance spends less time looking at the
past
and saying, "I'm sorry,"
than to the future and saying,"Wow!"
~
Frederick Buechner
Advent is the season of hope
awakened
not by our changing circumstances and fickle
emotions,
but by the action of God in our lives,
igniting the dying ember,
setting fire to our passion and searing us in a
way
that means we are forever changed.
~ Michael Spangler
That great word 'repentance' has five r's:
recognition,
remorse,
resolution,
restitution, and
reformation.
~
Unknown
Our Painted Toe Society
Reception
Saturday, December 4,
2004
Foothills Art
Center
Golden,
Colorado
I
try to take life one day at a time
but sometimes several days attack me at once.
~ Ashley Brilliant
December 5,
2004 Second Sunday of Advent
