Third Saturday of Advent: Reflect
We’ve come to the end of the third week of Advent.
We’d like to offer you a moment to pause and reflect. We pray that God will use this time to bring to mind the stories that are connected to your story and give you wisdom and peace as you sit with what you’ve received this week.
This week, we read stories from Ivan, Stephanie, Megan, Pip, and Antonio as we remembered times when the light broke through the darkness. As you think back over the week, here’s a brief reminder of what they each wrote about:
We’d like to offer you a moment to pause and reflect. We pray that God will use this time to bring to mind the stories that are connected to your story and give you wisdom and peace as you sit with what you’ve received this week.
This week, we read stories from Ivan, Stephanie, Megan, Pip, and Antonio as we remembered times when the light broke through the darkness. As you think back over the week, here’s a brief reminder of what they each wrote about:
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| Hearing from the Lord isn’t like adjusting the rabbit ear antenna of an old TV. If I can just get into the perfect position and get the right angle, the reception will be clear, right? But if we humble ourselves before the Lord and offer our pleas and petitions, we are tapping into the truth that God wants to be with us. God wants to hear us. God wants to speak to us. Because God loves us and is faithful to that love. —Ivan Strong Moore, Come Near |
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| I stood in a 1,500-year-old well, being blessed like countless before me had, in that very same spot. ...It was a lingering moment, a moment where I wanted to stay and feel the Holy Spirit embracing me. It was a moment during which I remembered all of the ways the Lord always has been and always will be faithful and steadfast. And so this Advent, I wonder: Where are you lingering? —Stephanie Wessel, A Lingering Place |
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| We embraced the wonder of Creation and sat in stillness before the Lord. God was exalted in our moment of wondering stillness. And there, with my kiddos snuggled close, I felt truly at rest. —Megan Gongola, Be Still and Know |
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| [Elizabeth and Mary] experienced deep joy, but not without pain. God’s promises fulfilled, yet still unfolding. It is a story that resonates in the lives of many who desire something deeply yet find themselves in a season of waiting, hopelessness, unfulfilled desires, or unexpected redirection. Advent reminds us that God works in and through these times, redeeming every barren space in our lives for His purposes. —Pip K., Every Empty Place |
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| In the beginning of the book of Luke, we are told on three different occasions that Mary “treasured up all these things in her heart.” This is a statement that has always been profound to me. I believe wholeheartedly that in order to experience the love that God has set out for us, we need to take everything that we experience from God and treasure these things in our hearts as anchors for our souls to be satisfied in Jesus. —Antonio Morton, Treasuring Up |