O come, o come, Emmanuel… and ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the son of god appear...
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come for thee, o Israel...
My faith has met many challenges and seen quite a bit of evolution in recent years. There's a decently sized list of things I've "known" and been sure of most of my life that I'm no longer assured in. But one of the things I am sure of is that the Advent and Christmas stories resonate very, very deeply with me. No matter what ideas I feel led to hold a little more loosely, I imagine it will always be the case that what Christmas represents in the story of humankind and our Creator will be something I hold dearer than dear.
This Advent season I want to let myself be immersed in this story more than usual. I want to deliberately take time to read, write, and meditate on this idea - that we don't ever walk alone, and we are one - and hopefully learn something I wasn't aware of at the beginning by the 25th of December.
I'm getting ideas for my readings and meditations from Rachel Held Evans's blog site, here. I'll be following her lectionary posts throughout the season for ideas, as well, and typing out some of my musings here on my own site... which seems to see only spikes in activity around this time of year. Ha. So be it.
O come, Desire of Nations, bind... in one the hearts of all mankind
Bid Thou our sad divisions cease
And be, Thyself, our king of Peace...
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