November 28, 2022

Here’s a bit of good news. “The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. (Romans 13:12)

If ever you’ve been tossing and turning in the night, waiting for the break of day, you know what it means to be in the season of Advent. Although it’s always darkest before the dawn, the dawn is right around the corner.

Jesus is coming to undo all that was done wrong, and to do all that still needs doing. I can’t think of anything better to set one’s sights on than that.

“Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (First Sunday of Advent – BCP)