December: Tethered to Hope
This year has been… terrible. Let’s just call a thing a thing, why don’t we?
A pandemic. Skyrocketing unemployment. A national, hyper-partisan election. The undeniable evidence that racism continues to rend our country into pieces.
Any one of those is cause for despair in a normal year. In 2020? Well, they’re all happening at once.
For people of faith, we know that 2020 isn’t the end. We are called to grieve and lament and repent and love our neighbors right here, right now — but we also know this isn’t the end of the story.
Advent has begun. We look forward with eagerness in December, anticipating the birth of a King who comes to save us all from everything. And this year, even that looks different. No candlelight services, less gatherings of celebration.
And yet — still we have hope. Hope tethering us to the promise that this is not all, this is not the ending.
What is tethering you to hope right now? It could be a scripture, an Advent practice, a weekly bubble bath as a concrete reminder that you are human and need care.
What settles your heart and reminds you that this is not all there is, that the hope of the world is still here and still coming?
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