The 7th and 8th seems to have gone by unmarked... but you had three pictures for the 6th, so the numbers still tally.

Last night was, for me, an evening of mingled work and leisure, enforced stillness and sombre black, interspersed with frantic, colourful action; times of great joy and wonder, leavened by some moments of despair and anger. I greatly need some still small voice of calm!

It's the Second Sunday in Advent today (9th) and the message is one of peace, of righteousness and judgement. Peace can be many things... the cessation of war; the end of a long, hard day; a yellow rose; a settling of spirits; a relaxation of the mind; the hope of spring after winter.

There are little oasis of peace all around us, we just have to take a few moments and look for it.

LTS