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