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• Give time to meditate and contemplate in the quiet
of the morning before you start your day — reflecting
on God’s abundance and the beauty all around you in our
world — new fallen snow, stars at night, kind words from a stranger, the joy of music, stirring words of poetry, the laughter of friends.
• At night before you sleep, can you think back through the day and give thanks for as many things as possible? Can you think of more things this night than you did last night?
Marking Jesus’ coming is about remembering something that is a special gift of Christian faith — for we believe that God loves us so much that God came into the world as one of us: feeling our pain and our joy, crying and laughing, knowing what it’s like to be vulnerable, to have a heart for love and also for grief, to know fear and brokenness, to be hurt by other human beings. Yet the miracle of Christ’s coming is that God didn’t leave us in these places where we struggle, but joined us in them and redeemed us there.
So wherever we may find ourselves this Advent Season, can we let love break into our lives in a new way, reborn and renewed as if for the very first time?
I wish you and your loved ones an Advent Season of Awe and Wonder, and may your Christmas be full of LOVE.
Prayerfully,
— Marisa