00:27:12 Dan Barcus: Simon, Is there a video recording of your opening song? 00:29:36 Christine Valters Paintner: If you search for Blessing to the World by Karen Drucker you will find a recording of her singing it. :-) 00:29:40 Jennifer Bellair: good morning everyone, so good to be with you all again. very wet & blustery here in Nth NSW Australia -Jennifer 00:30:02 Shelley: Hello from Ottawa Canada, thank you. 00:30:04 Wayne Manne: Hello to all of you from Mary Lou and Wayne in Brampton ON 00:30:06 Melanie Ihmels: Good Morning All from Victoria BC, Canada! 00:30:11 Sharon Sauer: Blessings to all from central OH. 00:30:31 Caroline Cargo: greetings from Cazenovia, NY 00:30:38 Michael Culloty: Greetings and blessing from Ireland 00:30:42 Julia Wickham: Good evening from dark wintry London! Blessings to you all 00:30:48 Kerry Howarth: Good afternoon from Poplar Point, Prince Edward Island! Advent blessings to all. 00:30:58 Martha Brunell: hello and blessings from Chicago 00:31:07 Maggie Wellert: Good afternoon from Easton Pennsylvania in US 00:31:08 Janet wamsley: Hello from Arlington, VA. Blessings to all! 00:31:15 Carol Reynolds: Warm Advent Blessings from sunny Arizona. 00:31:19 Nancy Dailey: Good Morning: Beautiful day in central California. Beautiful spirits all gathered here. 00:31:23 Kim Ebersole: Greetings from Indiana, USA. 00:31:26 Miranda Lau: sunny early afternoon from Sarnia Ontario 00:31:30 Cindo Peterson: Currently one of my fav's of Simon's songs. Joyously sending greetings from Cambridge, ON, Canada. 00:31:32 Susan Wald: greetings this morning from Canberra Australia 00:31:34 Jack Gentile: Greetings from Cape Cod, Massachusetts 00:31:38 Susan Rush: Advent waiting in New Mexico 00:31:42 Becky Crane: Blessings from snowy Berkshire County, Massachusetts 00:31:44 BARBARA REYNOLDS: Blessings to all from Sisters, Oregon 00:31:47 Tanya Loretto: Advent joy to everyone from Vancouver BC 00:32:02 Jennifer Deaton: Greetings from Jackson, Mississippi… 00:32:22 Darlene Tucker: sunny and cold in Minnesota today 00:33:13 Patti Joy Posan: Freezing in Sewanee TN … Greetings 00:33:15 Karen Colenbrander: Good advent from Mississauga ON Canada 00:33:39 Mary MacGillivray: Hello from Massachusetts-loved the songs 00:33:52 Mary Boyd: Blessings from Whidbey Island in the Salish Sea. 00:34:11 Christine Davis: Hello from Charlotte, NC, USA 00:34:15 Sharon Johnson: greetings from Ottawa, Canada, having a lovely dusting of snow 00:34:19 Karen H: advent greetings from northern Michigan usa 00:34:41 Christina Lelache: Greetings from New Jersey! 00:34:51 Wendy Cabell: blessings from the small rural town of alsea, oregon 00:35:00 Mary Kate Birge: Greetings from Central Maryland. 00:35:09 Harmony: blessings from another small, rural town in Oregon! :-) 00:35:37 Bonnie Giunta: Advent blessing from Dallas, TX 00:35:53 Lynne Martin: Hello from Hood River, Oregon in the Columbia River Gorge. 00:36:32 Jeannie Anderson-West: Blessings to all on this glorious day in December.. in Advent from Sacramento CA 00:37:06 Helma Gumpp: Advent Blessings from Port Townsend, WA 00:37:59 Melanie Ihmels: manager...giggle! 00:38:21 Julia Wickham: :) 00:39:19 Susan Rush: perhaps both are true. 00:39:38 Melanie Ihmels: was trying to think about that 00:44:58 Anne MacDermaid: John’s humility, lack of ego, 😊🙏 00:48:22 Petra Pryce: one whom you do not know..... embrace the mystery and the not-knowing 00:48:55 Christine Harland: why then? 00:49:32 Anne MacDermaid: when we offer sacraments we become vessels for the Spirit to bless others, 🙏 00:50:11 Becky Crane: among you - one whom you do not know; I am invited to look for Christ in the crowds I find myself in 00:51:14 Nancy Thielmann: I am a voice crying out. 00:55:24 Wendy Cabell: make straight... bed for Water to flow... 00:55:50 Anne MacDermaid: for me, all sharing is sacramental, ❤️🙏 00:56:50 Wendy Cabell: to make straight is to make bed for Water to flow 00:57:05 Ev Ward de Roo: Paradox - How can I at one time being unworthy to untie the sandals and bear Christ in myself? 00:57:42 Melanie Ihmels: Among you...Jesus is among you; right now this minute Jesus in his humanity is among us, standing beside each of us right now 00:58:23 Char peterson: crying out in the wilderness 00:58:34 Sharon Johnson: desert voice 00:58:45 beverly: If I remember tp make straight right to the divinity within 00:58:53 Susan Wald: among you is one..hidden in plain sight 00:58:55 Tanya Loretto: In this time of wilderness I feel called to not take life for granted. 00:58:58 Anne Wicks: "Among you stands one you do not know" ... the image of Christ among us, standing with and among, God with us in all moments .... The invitation which shimmers - to be assured of this reality; allow it to sink in; allow this realization to inform my response to life. Recalling the trajectory of Inform/Form/Transform. 00:59:02 Rosemary Hall: Wilderness - the untamed wild parts of my jeart 00:59:03 Sharon Sauer: Invitation to vigilant prayer, forgiving love and knowing abundant grace. 00:59:05 Sharon van der Laan: voice...with water 00:59:11 Kerry Howarth: I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandal...maybe I have some unworthiness left in me that impedes having the Divine fully in my life. 00:59:28 Darlene Tucker: among you--(all together, body of hrist) 00:59:37 Patti Joy Posan: How might I gift those I love with the gift of water - Peace, love, flow, music 01:00:29 Shane Tippett: "...he said...Isaiah said...they asked...he answered..." What call and response conversation am I meant to have with God, with my neighbors - the conversation I cannot help but have since I stirred in my mother's womb 01:00:45 Deborah Kohler: the poor women who attempted to steal our Christmas packages 01:00:47 Karen H: crying out for Antonio, for Ed, for Debbie and those who love them 01:00:51 Michealyn Willman: The Voice in the Wilderness is the Wilderness crying out 01:00:51 BARBARA REYNOLDS: I wish prayers for the people I know with COVID and for those I do not know as well. 01:00:55 Darlene Tucker: for 01:00:57 Rosemary Hall: Jackie, who is chronically depressed 01:00:58 Flash Laski: for the life of Art 01:00:59 Wendy Cabell: please pray for medical issues 01:00:59 Mary MacGillivray: My sister Peggy and friend Barbara and all my family and friends-loving blessings upon them all 01:01:07 Susan Rush: For Stella covid anxiety 01:01:16 Cassidhe Hart: Prayers for my sister, who is dealing with the after-effects of a concussion 01:01:20 Mary MacIlvain: praying for peace in the world 01:01:20 Cindy Read: for Rita in major surgery on Thursday 01:01:24 Nancy Thielmann: for Jaycee and wife in their grief 01:01:29 Julia Wickham: For Julie and her husband that they may both make a full recovery from Covid 01:01:31 Petra Pryce: For Jenny, for healing 🙏🏼♥️ 01:01:32 Kerry Howarth: Praying that the vaccine be available to all as soon as possible. Also praying for Jonathan, Mike and Mona, all facing the cancer battle. 01:01:32 Bonnie Giunta: For all who are afraid 01:01:32 Mary Boyd: My niece Katherine with a broken leg. 01:01:35 Laurie Bosman: for Tom and for Leo both in hospital 01:01:40 Cynthia Fields: For God's generous joy and peace to find a home in all our hearts. 01:01:44 Tanya Loretto: For all those who are living with addictions and their families 01:01:46 Katharine Weinmann: the whole blessed, messed up, precious world and all her beings 01:01:51 Michealyn Willman: For Babies recently and soon to be born 01:01:53 Nancy Husk: Thanks for medical researchers and caregivers 01:01:53 LAURA PARISI: For my eyes please, surgery scheduled 12/23. Thank you 01:01:55 Julia Wickham: Aunty Betty, still frail and still in hospital with no visitors 01:01:56 Jeannie Anderson-West: prayers and healing for Dave as he begins week two of chemo for stage IV pancreatic cancer oh Lord oh love hear my prayer 01:02:02 Shelley: for A 01:02:05 Anne MacDermaid: prayers for shalom I. this hurting world 01:02:06 Lynne Martin: for friends recently divorced after a long marriage. 01:02:07 Jo Ann: for Francine 01:02:15 Patti Joy Posan: Prayers for our family as this Friday our 19 year old, Austin. who is autistic, is being transported by ambulance to a new residential "home" We are heartbroken. 01:02:17 Maggie Wellert: peace and reconciliation in US 01:02:18 Carol Villaggio: For all who are grieving 01:02:22 Karen Colenbrander: for Michael Spavor and Michael Covrig political prisoners in China 01:02:25 Miriam Rand: For Danni struggling with mental health issues 01:02:25 Sara Mullarkey: Thanksgiving for my son Patrick’s negative Covid test and prayers for him and all those who are exposed to the virus because they have to go to work. 01:02:28 Darlene Tucker: for Dianne as she struggles with cognitive loss... 01:02:28 Susan Rush: +RIP Ginger McGirk 01:02:30 Carol Cherry: Please pray for Jenna & newborn baby Lakelyn (2 lbs., mom with COVID & complications). Thank you. 01:02:31 Jennifer Bellair: for Judith enduring chronic pain 01:02:39 Martha Brunell: for health care workers around the globe... 01:02:47 Helma Gumpp: Prayers for my friends and family 01:02:47 Judith Plummer: for a dear friend who has COVID 01:02:54 Anne Wicks: For those who transport, administer and receive the new vaccine ... for wisdom, safety and healing, for these bearers of light, hope and joy ... O God, in your mercy, hear our prayer. 01:02:56 Pat Culpepper: Forgiveness and reconciliation of family fractures and estrangements. 01:02:56 Mary Kate Birge: For all those who are living and dealing with cancer, its treatment, and its outcome in their lives, “O Love, hear our prayer.” 01:03:01 Cindo Peterson: I pray for my daughter as she waits weeks for a Dr's appt where he does not wish to discuss results over the phone. 01:03:13 Nancy Dailey: I pray that the Proud Boys and others so full of rage and hurt may be touched by your eternal, and everlasting love. And further that you teach me to love in that way. 01:03:29 Nancy Thielmann: hope in my heart, in my community, in this world 01:03:42 Carol Reynolds: Peace and healing for the loved ones of persons who have died by suicide. 01:03:42 Laurie Bosman: thank you Nancy. yes 01:03:44 Elaine Theriault: both of my sisters who are both battling cancer 01:03:48 Jennifer Bellair: for Lynda who has 01:03:54 Ben Freville: For those around the world who are food-insecure 01:03:56 Kathleen Cassels: for Mary in Hospice today. Breast cancer is taking her from her family and friends very soon. the 01:04:08 Laurel Gauld: for our human vessel that we can hold the tensions of our time, for the earth as the vessel that holds us. 01:04:19 Karen Colenbrander: those caught in addictions 01:04:22 Tanya Loretto: For those who are fighting injustice. 01:05:10 Carol Reynolds: For Native Americans whose rates of COVID infection are double that of other Americans and who have far less access to health care and water. 01:05:12 Laurie Bosman: for those struggling with depression in these dark times 01:05:16 Deborah Kohler: pray for the virus as it seeks a compatible home after it's ancient abode has been destroyed by the destruction of the rain forest 01:05:20 Sharon Sauer: for the spark of compassion to thrive in our world and for this earth 01:05:55 Brenda Giordano: for quick recovery of my knee - diagnosed today with a meniscus tear 01:06:31 Carol Reynolds: For immigrant children held in the U.S. who are still separated from their parents 01:06:42 Kathy O: Thank you for the covid vaccine which arrives today in Montana for the health workers. 01:06:46 Jim and Teresa Knipper: for my family 01:07:40 Nancy Thielmann: for healing in my lung and my breast cancer and in my mind and heart 01:07:45 Wendy Cabell: thank you 01:08:26 Margit Dornisch: For my grown up daughters and for me as I learn to mother them with love and wisdom 01:08:58 Diane Morrison: For Marilyn and Bob to stay healthy though Marilyn’s caregiver has tested positive for covid. 01:09:14 Cindo Peterson: Nancy Theilmann, I am radiating the Light of Healing from my heart centre for you~~~~ 01:09:42 Nancy Thielmann: for healing love to come and live in my daughters heart to lift her self esteem to recognize her true beauty 01:11:34 Cynthia Fields: So appreciate this gift of your time. 01:11:53 Susan Wald: thank you! 01:11:56 Anne Wicks: Thank you, Christine and Simon, for facilitating this lovely contemplative time ... 01:12:00 Carol Reynolds: For my sister, niece, and me as we celebrate our first Christmas without our mother from opposite sides of the country.... Thank you for this sacred time! 01:12:01 Valerie Allen: Thank you Christine and Simon. x 01:12:09 Susan Gallegos: Thanks and blessings! 01:12:10 Mary MacGillivray: You are indeed a gift to us Simon and Christine. 01:12:10 Julia Wickham: Thank you Christine and Simon and to all involved in planning these beautiful sessions 01:12:11 BARBARA REYNOLDS: Thank you so very much for your love and kindness. 01:12:12 Martha Brunell: thank you all 01:12:15 Kerry Howarth: Peace to all. 01:12:19 LAURA PARISI: thank you for such beauty to feel in our hearts 01:12:21 Sharon Johnson: Thank you. How I needed this time together 01:12:22 Mindy Bocko: What a gift! 01:12:23 Miriam Rand: Thanks you Christine and Simon for this precious time 01:12:25 Erika Cleveland: Thank you Christine and Simon 01:12:25 Kathleen Cassels: thanks so much ! 01:12:25 BARBARA REYNOLDS: Simon -- beautiful. 01:12:26 Tanya Loretto: Thank you for birthing these Advent celebrations for us Christine and Simon! 01:12:27 Judith Plummer: Thank you sooo much. It was truly beautiful 01:12:27 Melanie Ihmels: ZBlessings! 01:12:28 Sr Madeleine Cleverly: thanks so much 01:12:29 serene ri: what a gift 01:12:30 Janice Sealey: Beautiful time together. Thank you Christine, Simon and John