Maybe we all needed to lose faith in our country just in time to pick up the story of a refugee baby born into corruption and slaughter so we could lift our eyes and place our faith in something more worthy.
Maybe we needed to feel the darkness and danger - in our bones - in order to fully grasp the gravity of the baby who survived genocide and grew up to lead a revolution of Love. #Advent
Maybe we needed to experience the curtain being pulled back so our disillusionment would cease to exist and righteous anger + spirits of mercy-loving justice would rise in complacency’s place. #Advent
Maybe we needed to see what a refugee looked like and begin to grasp the perilous fate of someone born in opposition to a corrupt leader’s skewed morality in order to have any sort of empathy for the plight of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus. #Advent
Maybe we needed to fear for our own safety and refuse to take on the appearance of the “status quo” in order to perceive the previously imperceptible - for whom that baby came to serve and save. #Advent
Maybe we needed to experience the longing of freedom from oppression and freedom for the oppressed in order to fully value the social and political climate into which the long-awaited Messiah was born. #Advent
Maybe our previous blindness to the suffering of our brothers and our previous deafness to the cries of our sisters needed to be broken off before we could even see the Great Light dawning in the darkness. #Advent
Maybe our hearts needed to hope in something more than our man-made structures before we could fully belong to and become a part of the mystery and miracle of Emmanuel - God with us. #Advent
Maybe we needed to experience the tension of the bridge between hopelessness and hope that leaves us lingering in just the right field in order to receive a timely message of deliverance for all peoples. #Advent
Maybe we needed to learn the urgency of such life-altering expectancy before we could fully appreciate the wonder of the nativity scene. #Advent
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