Advent Isn't Then, It's Now

Readings for the First Sunday in Advent - Isaiah 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7  Mark 13:33-37Welcome to our new liturgical year!  And every year, it can be easy to fall into the idea of Advent being merely birthday planning.  We know a birth is coming up on the 25th and we have some preparations to do in order to celebrate that past event well.  But I urge us all (yes, including myself!) to approach Advent differently this year.  Advent isn't just about what happened then.  It's looking around and asking for God's birth into our own specific and universal worlds now.  It's seeing the need and asking God to rend the heavens and be born again.  And it's recognizing God's presence when indeed God is born.Special thanks to Bridget Zenk for her composition and performing of our intake and outtake music.  Thank you for walking beside me as we open God's Word weekly.  Know anyone who may enjoy it and benefit from it?  Pass it along to them or rate it on your podcast app.  Questions?  Send them my way at [email protected]