They prize summer above all else. Why? It is full of potential, and unfinished narratives, embodied experience, and sensory experience with others. “Summer” becomes a stand-in for a life well-lived in the particulars. It’s making-do with the odds and ends we’ve been given, bucking convention, and rising to the occasion.
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Still He Comes
The other day I heard the line sung "let every heart prepare him room" and it made me grieve. I have not prepared him room very well in my heart as of late. What's more, the season for such things is upon us and I—well, I just flat out haven't done much thinking about the coming of Christ.
