Seasons
Advent
For when you feel: advent, preparing for Christmas, December devotion
For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.
The MinuteHomily
It gets dark early now, and somewhere a single candle burns against the whole month's hurry. Isaiah wrote "unto us a child is born" seven hundred years before Bethlehem, which means God's people spent seven centuries doing what Advent asks of you: waiting on a promise with lamps burning. While the world sprints to December 25th, the church walks, one candle a week, practicing the posture that shapes the whole life of faith. He said He would come, and He came. He said He will come again, and we wait, awake. So resist the sprint a little this year. Light something. Read the old promises slowly, and let the ache of not yet do its deep work. The manger proves the waiting was never wasted.
By the MinuteHomily editors
A prayer for this moment
Come, Lord Jesus. In these waiting weeks, slow me down, light my lamp, and make my heart a Bethlehem: small, unlikely, and ready. Amen.
“The whole life of Christ was a cross and a martyrdom; He waited, and so do we.”
after Thomas à Kempis
Hymns for this moment
“O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” · trad., from the O Antiphons
“Creator of the Stars of Night” · Advent chant
One small step
Choose one Advent rhythm (a candle, a nightly verse, a fast from one hurry) and keep it till Christmas.
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