Co-pastor Tim talks about the anxiety of waiting, the rawness of Christ, and what it might take to see God coming in the distance.
Readings:
Matthew 3:1-3
In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”[a] 3 This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said,
“The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’”___________________________No one can celebrate a genuine Christmas without being truly poor.The self-sufficient, the proud, those who, because they have everything,look down on others, those who have no need even of God- for themthere will be no Christmas. Only the poor, the hungry, those who need someoneto come on their behalf, will have that someone. That someone is God. Emmanuel. God-with-us. Without poverty of spiritthere can be no abundance of God.
- The God We Hardly Knew by Óscar Romero
