Today's poem is Advent Calendar by Rowan Williams, which you can find here

The photo was an incredible sunrise, glimpsed only because, waiting to cross the road, I looked east and saw it. Christ comes a bit like that.

And a prayer...

God of sunrise and sunset

Who, in this darkest of seasons

Surprises us with jewel-coloured skies

Red and pinks, gold, orange, mauve and silver...

Fleeting reminders that always, always

You come like the dark...

And you are the light.

Amen