Advent is the season of liturgical time in which the church
invites us to prepare ourselves for the coming of the Christ child into the
world. This of course will mean different things to all of us. For children
there is the excitement of expecting the presents that are associated with this
celebration of the birth of the child Jesus. For adults all sorts of stresses
and worries may be associated with this time and override the sense of hope
which is for me inextricably linked with the season of Advent. .
If we think of the world and society into which The Christ
child arrived we find a Jewish society where the devout lived there lives in
the expectation of a messiah who would liberate them from the rule of Rome .
Instead the Man Jesus taught them that
that The Love of God was more important in there lives than military power and
that we are called to reflect God’s love for us in the way we interact with
each other.
When I try to anticipate what the coming of Christ means to
me in this time and place I need to remember to look at my life and see where
and how I have seen Christ acting in my life until now. After all ‘ Hindsight is always twenty twenty’. So for
me this Advent will spent looking back on a year which I have retired from a
forty year career in the health service and in which my mother was called home
to God after a long struggle with Dementia. Two life changing events in which I
hope to a find a meaning for the way in which I should lead the remainder of my
life, to try and find a way to contribute to to the society and church in which
I live and I pray that this advent will provide the space to look forward with renewed hope ant trust that
the coming of Christ will this year lead me to define the new role which God
has planned for me.
- Caroline Liddy
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