{"id":8165,"date":"2016-12-02T00:49:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T08:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8165"},"modified":"2016-12-02T00:49:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T08:49:34","slug":"7-quick-takes-advent-is-here-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8165","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: Advent Is Here Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Advent Playlist.<\/strong> I put together an Advent playlist for those who are interested.  Secular Christmas music makes me stabby so this is a nice change from all the tripe that&#8217;s playing in the malls right now.  Props go to Bonnie of <a href=\"http:\/\/aknottedlife.com\">A Knotted Life<\/a> and to my friend Thomas as I borrowed some of their ideas for mine.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Advent Playlist\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLmYHsy83cKzPg4fxYwfK8ZVPjvtTi7BnP\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free Advent Reflection Book.<\/strong>  My BFF Rebecca put <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.literaryspring.com\/2016\/11\/advent-reflections-book-2016\/\">this Advent reflection book<\/a> together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Advent game of sorts.<\/strong> On Sunday, our senior warden (translation: president of the &#8220;vestry&#8221; or congregation council) was handing out white mailing envelopes with a blue piece of paper attached signifying that it was &#8220;The Advent Game&#8221;.  The instruction was to take a slip of paper out each day and read it with our families before doing the action indicated.  (If it wasn&#8217;t something we particularly wanted to do, there were &#8220;extras&#8221; in the envelope so we could draw another one.)  Each slip of paper has been something fun or thought-provoking.  I&#8217;ve been asked to do things like write in a journal, go outside after dark and listen to the sounds of the night, say a prayer for a pregnant person if I see one, or ponder some interesting reflection questions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An &#8220;interesting&#8221; arrangement of &#8220;Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence&#8221;.<\/strong>  We&#8217;re working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwpepper.com\/Let-All-Mortal-Flesh-Keep-Silence\/8050007.item#.WEEq6vkrLDd\">this<\/a> for next weekend in my church choir.  It&#8217;s good to be able to listen to it on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwpepper.com\/\">JW Pepper website<\/a> because it can sound kind of like music from a haunted house if not heard with all the parts together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt5\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christmas cards.<\/strong>  I was hoping to get my Christmas cards out on the day after Thanksgiving but that obviously didn&#8217;t happen so I&#8217;m aiming to have a workday on Tuesday to get them ready to take to the post office.  My plan: curl up at $tarbux after I get Daniel to school and watch <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\">YouTube<\/a> videos while I try and get it all done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt6\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Messiah Sing-a-Long on Saturday!<\/strong>  Provided that Daniel isn&#8217;t being the pill he has been a few nights this week, I&#8217;ll be singing Handel&#8217;s <em>Messiah<\/em> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skagitsymphony.com\/orchestra\/skagit-symphony-chorus\/\">Skagit Symphony Chorus<\/a>.  I used to sing it with the <a href=\"http:\/\/sanjosesymphonicchoir.org\/\">San Jose Symphonic Choir<\/a> when I was in high school and college so I&#8217;m pretty excited!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt7\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>End of the Quarter.<\/strong>  I just have to submit my Access assessment and take my in-class test for Practical Accounting on Tuesday before I&#8217;ll be officially done with the quarter.  It has been interesting thus far and I&#8217;m looking forward to continuing with accounting next quarter.<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">This Ain&#8217;t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; Advent Playlist. I put together an Advent playlist for those who are interested. 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