Advent Candles: Hope, Peace, Love, Joy

Katherine Hawker has written four beautiful Advent poems for the lighting of the Advent candles.  Here is one of them. 

love and other foolishness

love
in a young girl's song;
fearful,
determined,
hopeful,
bursting.
love
in a mother's song;
tender,
embracing,
challenging,
stern.
love
is god's song;
curious yet timid,
playful and wondering,
coming among us again.
we light a candle for love.

To see her poems on Hope, Peace and Joy, click here. http://liturgyoutside.net/hope.pdf

— Katherine Hawker, 2007.  Posted on her Liturgies Outside the Box website. 

For more worship resources for the season of Advent, see this index of Advent Worship Resourcesor click on Advent 1, 2, 3, or 4 in the list of “Labels” at the lower right side of the page.  For Christmas worship resources, see this index of Christmas Worship Resources.