Advent 2 ~ Peace

 

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. 

 

We return to the quote above on this Friday, to let these words guide us and open us during the season of Advent.

 

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

When did peace surprise you?

Where did you discover peace within you?

What does peace feel like?  Taste like?  Sound like?

 

Peace found me this week when looking at Christmas lights.  Peace surprised me this week when I was out for a morning walk with the sun just starting to rise on a new day.  Peace found me as I slowed down to God’s pace rather than the frenzied pace life decrees.  Peace feels like this moment, peace tastes like a marshmallow ~ fluffy/airy/sweet, peace sounds like a bell softly, slowly ringing returning my attention to God’s presence here. 

 

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