Purple is for Preparation!
Welcome to the Advent season dear friends. What a calm special time of year to reflect on the mystery of the Christian faith. I first was taught about Advent, its meaning, and how it may be helpful to a persons discipleship to Jesus, in my COGS training 4 years ago.
We use a few symbols around our home, like an advent wreath, a creche and the liturgical colors. This year we put a purple bow on our wreath outside on the door.
So this Advent, I am taking extra special care to be slow and disarm my cynicism. I am thinking of Isaiah who proclaimed to a dry and weary people that “they would see a great light”. I wonder if I were alive and heard him with my own ears if I would of believed him? Maybe I would of been cynical and said something like “Yeah right…when?” Maybe that is how a lot of God’s people felt? Thankfully for us, He came anyway.
So Hold on to child like wonder with me friends. This whole amazing journey of being a called out and sent people of God, is budding and blooming and pressing forward in this season, and I for one want to experience the joy of it this year again.
I am a bit giddy with excitement.
“Come Lord Jesus
Come Lord Jesus
Come Lord Jesus
Come and be born in our hearts.”
