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Advent Week 4: The Longest Night
Affliction tells the truth about the world. Love tells the truth about what holds it. The paradox is not resolved, but it is held.
Dec 22 • Jen Jensen
Peace Exists Only Where Suffering Is Briefly Not Happening
An Advent meditation on suffering, incarnation, and the peace that does not avert its eyes
Dec 15 • Jen Jensen
Advent Week 3: Joy in Advent
Joy, it turns out, often arrives quietly. Sometimes it looks like light through the blinds. Sometimes it looks like peppermint mocha in your coffee and…
Dec 13 • Jen Jensen
Advent Week 2: Waiting for Peace
Because I’m bringing all these pieces home. I’m integrating what I once abandoned. I’m learning that peace is not what arrives after everything is fixed…
Dec 10 • Jen Jensen
Advent Week 1: We hunger. We hope. We wait.
Entering Advent Through Story, Suffering, and the God Who Comes in the Dark
Dec 1 • Jen Jensen

July 2025

By Demand: Kale Farts & Ikea
I got home and sounded like a marching band as I walked the dogs. Each step expelled more of the gas festering inside of me. The smell was pure evil…
Jul 25 • Jen Jensen

July 2022

In Memory: Junie B. Jensen
Originally written in June 2017, I can’t stand to not have this posted somewhere in her memory.
Jul 31, 2022 • Jen Jensen
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