Heidi Haverkamp > Quotes

“Advent is a season that is a borderland. A new year is coming. We’re waiting for the coming of Jesus, both for his birth on Christmas Day and for his coming again on the Last Day.”
― Heidi Haverkamp, Advent in Narnia: Reflections for the Season

“We all walk with darkness or danger of some kind overshadowing our lives: warfare, cancer, poverty, broken relationships, depression.”
― Heidi Haverkamp, Advent in Narnia: Reflections for the Season

“Psalm 23 There is no obvious reason for what the psalmist receives. The psalmist lists no accomplishments or credits. God’s favor has come apart from whatever the psalmist has done or left undone. . . . God’s motivations are generous and mysterious, beyond expectation and calculation. JOHN W. WURSTER”
― Heidi Haverkamp, Everyday Connections: Reflections and Practices for Year A

“stone. We all walk with darkness or danger of some kind overshadowing our lives: warfare, cancer, poverty, broken relationships, depression.”
― Heidi Haverkamp, Advent in Narnia: Reflections for the Season

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently”
― Heidi Haverkamp, Advent in Narnia: Reflections for the Season

“Paraphrasing St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, C. S. Lewis wrote in an essay: “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― Heidi Haverkamp, Advent in Narnia: Reflections for the Season

“This lamppost is a living thing. No one lights it, no one extinguishes it, and it burns without fuel. The White Witch’s winter hasn’t snuffed it out. It is a boundary, but also a promise that Aslan can make broken things new and alive. It is a beacon in the face of the dark, cold spell that lies on the land.”
― Heidi Haverkamp, Advent in Narnia: Reflections for the Season

“Being alone sounds sad, aimless, or lonely, to hear ads or memes describe it. Solitude, however, is chosen and purposeful. It isn’t loneliness, but the practice of a deep integrity. It’s learning to be present to God wholeheartedly, as your true and simple self. Richard Foster wrote, “Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.”
― Heidi Haverkamp, Holy Solitude: Lenten Reflections with Saints, Hermits, Prophets, and Rebels