Ashley-Anne Masters is author of Holding Hope: Grieving Pregnancy Loss During Advent and coauthor of Bless Her Heart: Life as a Young Clergywoman. She currently serves as a pediatric chaplain in Chicago.
Those of us in violence-plagued neighborhoods look forward to winter's reprieve. Our teenagers understand Advent waiting all too well.
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