"A desert full of flowers is not a miracle. Flowers bloom in the desert every time it rains. Which is not often, to be sure, but it does happen, especially in the spring time. That's because deserts are full of seeds and bulbs and stream beds and dry ponds and, they wait. They wait for long stretches for water to bring them to root, and to bloom - to make them spectacularly what they are." - The Rev. Barbara Ballenger

The Rev. Barbara Ballenger delivers this sermon on her first Sunday as an ordained priest from the readings of the day, the third Sunday of Advent.