Advent 1 ~ Hope

 

Here is the truth we are preparing our hearts for this Advent: again and again God enters our life in the strangest places.  Again and again God surprise earth with heaven.  Again and again amid hustle and bustle and crisis and worried lives God enters into our hearts looking for a place to reside. 

 

How is hope finding room to reside in you this week?

When did hope surprise you?

Where did you discover hope within you?

What does hope feel like?  Taste like?  Sound like?

 

Hope for me is found in quiet moments and seeing a Christmas ornament that my grandmother gave me over thirty years ago ~ because her fingerprints/DNA are on that holy, fragile, object.

Hope surprised me when fear objected to something I wanted to do ~ and I listened to the fear ~ but decided to let hope have the final word and guide/ground my life.  Hope was found in listening to Carols, Wednesday dinner, and the warmth of a blanket at night.

 

Now is your turn…respond to those questions about how you are tending and turning and embodying hope in these days.  How are you both awaken to and sharing hope as true in our world today?  May these questions move us closer to the place where God enters in anew this Advent. Amen.