The second week of Advent is meant to be about peace. Instead, I found myself stuck in shame. So here’s the question I asked this week: How does Advent speak to our shame? “Gloria, gloria,God has come to understand us.” — “Gloria Gloria” by Jess Ray This lyric undid me on a drive this week, […]
Advent: Peace and imperfection.
“I was rounding the corner to the new year in every way. Promise had surfaced in my life. We’d had small circumstantial changes that had translated into fragile hope. But hope was hope. There were no gradations. I hadn’t this sort of quickening of spirit in years.Morning had broken.For a few days, at least…I wrapped […]