Although it comes as late as it can this year, Advent is upon us. Some of us grew up observing it, while to others (including this childhood Baptist) it was even more foreign than Lent! Over the past twenty years, I have grown to love Advent as a season of preparation, although as a pastor I find it harder to practice it at home than at church, even when the church might prefer I make it the other way 'round.Here are five questions about Advent for this first of December:
1) Do you observe Advent in your church?
2) How about at home?
3) Do you have a favorite Advent text or hymn?
4) Why is one of the candles in the Advent wreath pink? (You may tell the truth, but I'll like your answer better if it's funny.)
5) What's the funniest/kitschiest Advent calendar you've ever seen?
Let us know in the comments if you play. For advise on posting a direct link to your blog, go here!
EDITED TO ADD: The first two pink candle explanations I have seen are so funny that I am now offering a prize for the funniest of a handmade candle from my church's fair. Let that be your inspiration!
I played! Here's a link to Magdalene's Musings.
ReplyDeletejust check out my blog, I can't get the link to work...
ReplyDeleteMy answers are posted and I'm off to see the pink candle explanations others have posted at Sweet Memes.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful weekend!
I here.
ReplyDeleteI am not funny. *whine*
ReplyDeleteWhile I'm not so funny either, it was a fun Friday Five. So I played.
ReplyDeleteI will play later today...'cause I'm -- shhhhhh! -- at work right now. (In the middle of a blizzard, too...the trip home should be most interesting.) See ya at my place tonight! I'll make the cocoa; you bring the shortbread.
ReplyDeleteBesoMami played here.
ReplyDeleteToday is my day off and I'm going out to lunch with a friend. Yay!
I played
ReplyDeleteMy favorite so far on the pink candle is the one about God hoping for a _______ [now you all will have to look, won't you?]
I had a feeling when someone mentioned "blizzard" it was LutheranChik. Not here, not yet. I'm warming up my snow shovel however.
ReplyDeleteI played here.
I got MADSKILLZ! Will play sometime today - busy Friday ahead!
ReplyDeleteAnd I played too, complete with illustrations! Try this link here.
ReplyDeleteMe too! Here I am!
ReplyDeleteSnowed in here too...so I spent the morning making it Advent on my blog rather than going to the gym. Awesome. And, of course, I played.
ReplyDeleteIS it really Advent already????
ReplyDeleteANyway, I played
Where I come from (England) the candles are all red, with a white one in the middle. So festive . . .
ReplyDeleteI played!what you want the link to say goes here
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to read everybody's pink candle explanations!
Whoops! I forgot to erase the "what you want the link to say goes here" part! Yep, I'm one of the slow ones!
ReplyDeletenot funny but man or woman, some of you are! the revgals are sure rockin on this one! (unfortunately mine, not so much!)
ReplyDeleteLOL Iris, I actually thought you did that on purpose.
ReplyDeleteYou can find mine at preacher, blogger or procrastinator and in honor of Iris what you want the link to say goes here.
i played.
ReplyDeleteHere's mine!
ReplyDeleteI played too!
ReplyDeleteAdvent Friday Five!
ReplyDeleteI played too!
Advent. Hopefully my link works now!
ReplyDeleteHopefully the third time will be a charm.
ReplyDeleteTake Three!
Allright, I finally got to play, too!
ReplyDeleteI played. Check out seekingauthenticvoice....
ReplyDeletelate in the day, but here I am!
ReplyDeleteIt's early evening, but I made it: my responses are here.
ReplyDeleteI played: second time in as many weeks.
ReplyDeleteI played after getting poinsettas in church and mailing out calendars for youth.
ReplyDeleteHere it goes
YES!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the plain English directions!
I played -- seems like I am always bringing up the rear on Fridays since I can't get this done until after work. Anyway, I did play and I covered the colors blue, purple and PANK! Check it out here.
ReplyDeleteHere 'tis... Note the tacky graphic to go with the comment about the Advent calendar...
ReplyDeleteDeb
I played... here
ReplyDeleteI played here-- with a nod to a fellow Rev Gal.
ReplyDeleteBetter late than never.
ReplyDeleteAlthough it's not even advent yet, so I guess I'm right on time.
Let's see if this link works...
ReplyDeleteI played, and it's still Friday!! Here ya go.
ReplyDeleteOops, I left out number 5. It's there now, so if you have time, go back here for a look.
ReplyDeleteIt's not funny, but I played.
ReplyDeleteI played at my LiveJournal! Only an hour or two past the end of Friday.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's better late than never.
ReplyDeleteI did adventually get around to playing!
ReplyDeleteI played too...right over here.
ReplyDeleteLate, but enjoyable, i hope! Go browse
ReplyDeleteMaybe Christ had a birth defect and was actually a TransGendered female.
ReplyDeleteI played a little late.
ReplyDeleteI finished mine last night, but didn't get to comment until now.
ReplyDeleteHere it is advent come lately
I played at signs-along-the-way.
ReplyDeleteI played late too. I love Advent, but my post is a bit sarcastic.
ReplyDeleteHere's mine. I know I'm a little late to the party.
ReplyDeleteLate? Best described as Adventually Eventually.
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