The mood of Advent is that we are all lost. Advent isn’t about the “saved” telling the “lost” to “get saved.” Advent is a light that dawns in all of our darknesses. Advent is bread for all of our hungers. Advent is the promise kept for all of us promise-breakers, betrayers and failures.Read the whole thing and be blessed.
Can we find a way to celebrate Advent as those who NEED to be saved? As those who NEED a savior? Not as those who know for certain that someone else does?
In Addition: Bill at Out of the Bloo was also moved by the Imonk's post, but he did something with them that is nothing short of inspired. Check it out.
In Addition II: Trevin at Kingdom People quotes Bonhoeffer on Advent:
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes… and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
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