New Advent

Another year has come and what has it brought

Anxiety, fear, hatred and the inability to trust

Too many unknowns

How to forage ahead?

The twists long, the turns sharp for the compass knows not North

Aimlessly we have wandered

Perilously we have wondered

Division our new norm

What if that need not be our fate?

What if we can fix the broken compass?

We must look within and find our healing grace

The Father has walked every step, paralleled our every stride

A year of uncertainty is certain in love, certain in hope, certain in faith

A year saturated in humanity yet a year with a certain je ne sais quoi 

For we were given time, time we thought nonexistent

Time to discover

Peace, relationships, to build up hope

A time for the discovery of a reality independent of human confines

Up to this point, maybe we squandered such time

But here it is again, time handed in the package of Advent

Days to prepare, little by little

To investigate our moments using in a magnified glass of love

Where we will discover  the Father in each ad every moment

To find each breath saturated in hope as offered by the embrace of the Father

To find our compass pointing due North 

Faith, our moral compass

Given this time, our burdens of humanity melt away; the Father its replacement

He is love, love we must accept

He is our hope of which we must believe

He is our faith to which we must live

A Season of opportunity

A Season of gift giving

Want the perfect gift?

Rediscover God

Rediscover moments of love wrapped in hope, swaddled in faith

Slowly unwrap to become alive and reveal a reality many think impossible

A reality God has shown and continues to offer

A reality burdened not by pedestrian antics

But rather a reality saturated in the Father, saturated in holiness

A reality to which are apart, a reality to which our compass points

Can we take this time?

Can we part with our agendas?

Can we step back and follow God’s compass?