2020 feels like an extended Ash Wednesday, a Lent that awaits the Dawn of Easter. I know it will come but at this moment, the darkness is overwhelming.
Yet God is faithful and, 'though he slay me, I will trust him.'
May the approaching season of Advent shape and form our lives by a renewed awareness of what Advent has been designed liturgically to be and do - not a month-long extended Christmas, but an entry into the longing...
May the approaching season of Advent shape and form our lives by a renewed awareness of what Advent has been designed liturgically to be and do - not a month-long extended Christmas, but an entry into the longing...
...of God's people and creation for the coming of the Son of God to put all to rights and make all things new. In the days ahead we enter into the pain of 'those who sat in darkness' and waited, longing and praying for the fulfillment of the hope of generations.
The 'great light' did appear... and will again.
Come Thou long-expected Jesus...
May God comfort and keep all who mourn tonight and strengthen every fainting heart.
Come Thou long-expected Jesus...
May God comfort and keep all who mourn tonight and strengthen every fainting heart.
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