Miracle on 10th Street, & Other Christmas Writings

by L'Engle, Madeleine

• ISBN13: 9780877885313
• ISBN10: 0877885311
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Harold Shaw Pub

Summary

These pages include excerpts from Madeleine L'Engle's more than forty years of writing and reflecting on Christmas theses: advent, incarnation, epiphany, mystery, redemption, and celebration.I

Author Biography

Madeleine L'Engle is the author of more than forty-five books for all ages, among them the beloved <i>A Wrinkle in Time,</i> awarded the Newbery Medal; <i>A Ring of Endless Light,</i> a Newbery Honor Book; <i>A Swiftly Tilting Planet,</i> winner of the American Book Award; and the Austin family series of which <i>Troubling a Star</i> is the fifth book. L'Engle was named the 1998 recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards award, honoring her lifetime contribution in writing for teens.<br><br>Ms. L'Engle was born in 1918 in New York City, late in her parents' lives,an only child growing up in an adult world. Her father was a journalist who had been a foreign correspondent, and although he suffered from mustard gas poisoning in World War I, his work still took him abroad a great deal. Her mother was a music

Table of Contents

1 Advent	9	(12)
O Oriens	11	(1)
Redeeming All Brokenness	12	(1)
Born once	13	(1)
Life--A Gift	13	(1)
Time and Space Turned Upside Down	14	(2)
Coming, ready or not!	16	(1)
Advent, 1971	17	(1)
Forever's Start	18	(1)
Hush!	19	(2)
2 Incarnation	21	(18)
The first coming	23	(2)
Transfiguration	25	(8)
What Have We Done to Christmas?	33	(1)
Story	33	(1)
Creed	34	(1)
In Human Flesh	34	(1)
This birth has death forevermore confused	35	(1)
Impossible Things	36	(1)
Maker of the galaxies	37	(1)
A Galaxy, a Baby	38	(1)
That Newness	38	(1)
3 Epiphany	39	(20)
Miracle on 10th Street	41	(3)
Summer's End	44	(1)
Calling, Calling	44	(1)
A Thanksgiving Weekend	45	(1)
A child's prayer	45	(1)
That Tiny Flame	45	(1)
Crosswicks: An Old Pattern	46	(1)
The glory	47	(1)
Into the darkest hour	47	(1)
An Open Window	48	(1)
The Eve of Epiphany	49	(2)
An Offering of Love	51	(1)
Making worlds: a child's prayer	51	(1)
The Light of the Stars	52	(1)
An Icon of Creation	53	(1)
A Deepening Vision	54	(1)
Revealing Structure	55	(1)
A Promise of Spring	55	(1)
"Anesthetics"	56	(2)
One king's epiphany	58	(1)
4 Glorious Mystery	59	(20)
The ordinary so extraordinary	61	(1)
The Glorious Mystery	62	(4)
This tiny baby	66	(1)
Falling into Sentimentality	66	(1)
January: With My Own Eyes	67	(2)
O Simplicitas	69	(1)
The promise of his birth	70	(1)
Mary speaks	71	(1)
More Than We Can Do	71	(1)
The Furthest Reaches of Time and Space	72	(1)
Atomic Furnaces	73	(1)
Soaring	73	(1)
Wonderful Mix of Creation	74	(1)
This Extraordinary Birth	74	(1)
After annunciation	74	(1)
The Bethlehem explosion	75	(1)
The Other Side of Reason	76	(2)
The birth of wonder	78	(1)
5 Redemption	79	(30)
The First-born light	81	(1)
The Wise Men	82	(1)
Annunciation	83	(1)
Opposing Parallels: A Journal Entry	84	(1)
Bearer of love	85	(1)
O Sapientia	86	(1)
A Time of Hope	87	(1)
A Full House: An Austin Family Story	88	(9)
Christmas Gifts	97	(1)
Tree at Christmas	98	(1)
Royal Alchemy	99	(2)
Joy	101	(1)
For Dana	102	(1)
Saying Yes	103	(1)
Joyful in the newness of the heart	104	(1)
A Winter's Walk	105	(1)
The Gift of Christ	106	(1)
Moving Towards Lent	106	(1)
All Heaven with its power	107	(1)
Prayers for Peace	108	(1)
6 Celebration	109	(34)
Love's incarnate birth	111	(1)
Most amazing Word	112	(1)
First coming	113	(1)
Gratitude	114	(1)
Such Smallness	115	(1)
A Call to Jury Duty	116	(7)
Eighty-Second Street	123	(1)
Homemade Decorations	124	(1)
Chamonix	125	(1)
The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas: An Austin Family Story	126	(17)
Acknowledgments	143