A Blessed Advent to all!
For the entire season of Advent, I’ll be posting entries from my original Advent devotional ebook, Pilgrim God, every week.
my Creator teaches patience through the sleep the cold the color the depth welcomed in as Advent opens the door. the patchwork blue of winter watches from above with gentle gazings and holy musings shared in whispers like leaves falling to earth.
The Old Tale is a tale of waiting, and Advent is an inhaled breath. These days before the Christmas Feast form a gentle place to fall, to hold, to consider. A quiet space to lie on our backs and dream in the candlelight, as we may have done when we were children and were told we had to wait. That it wasn’t time yet. Waiting is the enemy of progress, and progress is the modern goal.Â
But when a child grows in the womb it does so silently, and we must wait. What does a womb know of the modern goal to hurry? When God stepped down from His throne among the life-cycle stars to become a baby, constellations of cells whirling about Him like a crown, He blessed the waiting and whispered His own counsel, unheard. There was no hurry. All of history waited for the time that the Timeless One would arrive.Â
The darkness of winter covers the land and we wait for the sun. The seeds wait under the sodden, frozen soil. The creatures hibernate, as the humans often wish to do, and wait for warmth and thaw. There is a waiting in every human heart. A waiting for love, for something new, for renewed health, for a space at the table. A waiting for change, for news, for hope. A waiting for the weeping to stop. A waiting for the world to make sense. We long to progress, but we must wait.   Â
In Advent we may bless the waiting, hold it close, and lean in to hear its whispers.
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And don't we all struggle with the waiting? I love Advent as a reminder that the wait is worth it.