December, this year, marks the beginning of the Advent Season. Advent means “to come”. We wait in eager anticipation for the Christ child. It is a time for us to be reminded to wait on God. Waiting entails listening. I challenge each of us to listen well this month. Listening requires being still long enough to hear. This December listen for God. Recently, I participated in Lectio Divina, a method of reading Scripture and listening for God. Upon hearing a text read through twice, I had a break through. I heard a passage in a new way. I was still long enough to pay attention to what God would have me hear that day. It is a challenge to be still in December, as we all know. So, let’s do it together and do it in our homes. Then when we are reunited, we will be all the better for it. In December, we will gather during the week for lunch (provided) and an Advent devotional at noon. Please come, be still, and await Christ’s birth in community. Remember God’s word: Isaiah 40:28-31
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless. Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; but those who wait for the LORD shall renew
their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be
weary, they shall walk and not faint.
Listen for God and be strengthened by God’s everlasting love.
Grace and peace,
Lucia
