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Touching Wonder 
“In this collection o short readings or advent, JohnBlase helps us encounter the Christmas story … with dirtbeneath its ngernails. Tis is the incarnation as real asit gets, God-with-us in all our feshly despair and hope.Smell the hay in the Bethlehem stable, soaked with birth-ing blood. Hear Mary’s pants and cries as she pushes theliving God rom her womb. Look over Joseph’s shoulderas he watches his beloved bear the child o Another, theSon he will raise who will raise all humankind. Hear theduet o adoration rom Anna and Simeon as they witnessthe ulllment o the promise o the ages. Read
ouching Wonder 
, and remind yoursel once again o the absurd,unexpected, unathomable glory o God’s arrival in our world.”
Tom Lemmons,
author o 
Blameless 
“John Blase writes evocatively, passionately, and beauti-ully. Tis creative series o sketches and letters makes the
 
amiliar resh and brings us to the inside o the Christmasevent. A delight.”
 Andrew Wilson,
author o 
GodStories 
and
Incomparable 
“With a poet’s git or seeing into and depicting theheart o a scene, John Blase leads us through the birtho Christ. With Blase, we hear the voices o the story inresh, authentic, and powerul new ways so that we’restartled, amazed, and grateul all over again.”
 Joy Jordan-Lake,
author o 
Blue Hole Back Home 
and
Why  Jesus Makes Me Nervous 
“Recovering wonder is never easy. But John Blase providesa doorway through his graceul book,
ouching Wonder 
.Te anticipation meant or advent is oten lost in the very season when steady pacing, taking time, and breathingdeeply ought to be its hallmarks. John Blase gives us thatunhurried time back by expanding on the human side o the Christ child’s heritage, the men and women who werethere beore and ater His birth giving us living examples
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