Today, I’ve been married for 10 months. And I love the timing of this, in the final week of Advent, the week which bears the theme: love. On Sunday, our pastor shared on this theme some words that really resonated with me: Advent is a coming of love. The nature of love is participation; it’s […]
advent 2020, week 3: do we deserve joy?
What do you deserve? It seems like a weird question, but also one that I think most of us have a pretty negative answer for. For me, I tend to think I deserve “bad things.” I never out-right say that, and you probably don’t either. It comes out in a different way: “I don’t deserve […]
advent 2020, week 2: God understands our shame
The second week of Advent is meant to be about peace. Instead, I found myself stuck in shame. So here’s the question I asked this week: How does Advent speak to our shame? “Gloria, gloria,God has come to understand us.” — “Gloria Gloria” by Jess Ray This lyric undid me on a drive this week, […]