Hello everyone,
And we’re back! After a small hiatus from our website, it is finally up and running although not as it was before. There are still some pages and a lot of info missing. Basically, it’s just a slight representation of what it was and what it was supposed to be.
But while I am very much over it (although I seem to keep talking about it), it’s still a bit sad that all that content is gone. All the work and effort that was put into the website over the years has been deleted. All that history and goodness that was added to the site is now (as far as I can tell) no longer existent.
Yet, the site still remains. It’s ability to display our community is still there. Even though it’s not at all what it used to be, it is still useful.
This is why I’m not giving up on it. It’s why I continue to work on it. It’s why I didn’t just cut our losses and move on to something like more established and stable (like Facebook and Youtube, which we also are on but that’s beside the point). So for it’s continued value to our community and all of you reading this, I am thankful.
Here are the readings for next week:
Micah 5:2-5a
Psalm: Luke 1:46b-55
Hebrews 10:5-10
Luke 1:39-45
And a video of me reading the readings:
On this last Sunday of Advent, let us remember all the themes that we have gone over thus far: hope, peace, joy, and now love. These are themes that we get every Advent in more or less that order. These are the themes that help us in our preparation of the coming Christmas season. These are the themes that help us throughout life.
I think about this when I think about this whole website fiasco. I needed hope that it’ll return. I needed the peace in knowing that even if it didn’t, we’d be ok. I needed the joy is realising that it’s usefulness will carry on. And finally, the love in seeing its worth even in its brokenness.
Elizabeth was also going through a lot in the story of the birth of her son. But it was her seeing Mary that gave her hope. She was at peace in knowing that God was with them both and called them both to the situation that they were in. She felt joy in the children they were respectively carrying. And her love for her cousin and her child was through the roof.
And so in all of that, we can see God. We can see God living, breathing, and acting in our lives. We can see God with us, in the ups and downs of life, giving us all a sense of hope, the reassurance of peace, the motivation of joy, and the confidence in knowing that each and every one of us are dearly loved.
May this upcoming Christmas season be blessed for you and your families!
Have a great week, everyone!