For the next week, Dave will be posting some Advent reflections on his blog at http://davidbeales.livejournal.com/
From early in the Christian era, Benedictine monks focussed their pre-Christmas meditations on 7 titles for the Messiah from the Old Testament.
Each day for a week before Christmas Eve, they looked at one title and prepared their hearts for the coming of Christ by addressing songs to Christ using the titles as names... “O, Wisdom, O, Lord etc.”
This year, rather than write blogs on the 12 days of Christmas, as I have done over a couple of years, I’m going to attempt a bit of benedictine-style reflection on “Who is this baby?” over the next week.
The photo here is "solitude on a sandbar". Lots of revelation happens when we open our souls to the possibility of silence and solitude.
In case you’d prefer to do your own reflections rather than read mine, here are the themes for the week-
Dec 17th Wisdom
Dec 18th Lord
Dec 19th Root of Jesse
Dec 20th Key of David
Dec 21st Dayspring
Dec 22nd King of the Nations
Dec 23rd God is with us
