This season before Christmas is more than anticipation for many people. It’s a time of sorting out feelings, even aches and pains from the trauma of pandemic and recovery. We are still discovering the depth of how we were affected by all that we went through as a planet, all of us.

For all that we need, for all that we lack, for all that we could never be in ourselves… we turn outward for help. This season is one that allows us to calm, to hear our true weariness, and to see our deepest wants rise up. And as we do that, we can discover an ever present, shepherding, providing, healing, defending God. Our Advent worship will be experiences that will give us room to explore, as well as to find answers we can hold.