This midweek Advent series invites us to pause, to prepare, and to ponder. First is the call to spiritual introspection, prayerful waiting, and pausing from the constant busyness of our normal lives. This is juxtaposed with Advent’s clarion call to wake up, to rise in action, to prepare the way of the Lord, and to join in God’s continued creative work of reconciliation, seeking justice, and peacemaking. Furthermore, we ponder the beginning and end of all things. We prepare for a baby, marveling that the creator of the universe was formed in a woman’s womb, full of hope and potential, fragility and vulnerability. We anticipate Christ’s imminent arrival here among us, as well as his arrival still to come—where pain, sorrow, injustice, warfare, and death itself are no more—in a new heaven & a new earth where righteousness is at home. We pause, we prepare, we ponder. #Advent
