First Candle Lit

I didn't grow up in a liturgical church, quite the contrary, so I find myself delighting in the order and beauty of it all. Was slightly surprised that the priest's robes today were purple, the colour of penitence, but realised from the readings that Advent is a time of preparing for the coming of God (both the one that happened two millennia ago, and the one still to come), and that includes repentance, which means, not so much beating your breast, but a deliberate putting things right.

All the readings emphasized how we are still waiting, but in that waiting, we need to prepare so that we're ready when He comes. Here, a part of the first reading from Jeremiah:

‘Watch for this: The time is coming’—God’s Decree—‘when I will keep the promise I made to the families of Israel and Judah. When that time comes, I will make a fresh and true shoot sprout from the David-Tree. He will run this country honestly and fairly. He will set things right.'


Gratefuls:
- our Sunday breakfast of croissants and grapefruit, and kefir and coffee; always makes the day feel special
- seeing people, and more to come at Sem Fim in a bit; feel like we've done nothing but isolate since we got back
- the hope we have that this world will be put right one day, and every tear gently wiped away

Oh, and Mike has put up our high Christmas star, so folk on the road below can see it.