This last week in Advent is a full seven day week fr us to become aware of what is truly going on in our lives these days and if it is truly bringing us in the season for the right reason. As our minister Jack reminds us, Christmas is often the loneliest time of the year for many people. Often there are sad memories attached or the death of a loved one. Sometimes is just purely being alone with out family or someone to smile at or sing Silent Night with.
Terry and I were watching a movie on the love channel called Lovely Still by Nik Fackler.
Nik was only 22 when he wrote the script for this film. His ability to identify so deeply to the different levels of his characters, decades older than he was at the time, is extraordinary.
It was around midnight when we turned it off before it ended, but I will be watching for it again because I want to see it.
Advent... it ties right in. The main focus is at Christmas and the holidays. Next, two elderly people played by Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn.
There is a wonderful review to read about it if you click HERE.
The 'Advent' we celebrate coming into Christmas fills us with renewed hope and joy. To be alone at this time of year is the most difficult when you often have Christmas past and years of memories of what was a happier time. As we grow older, we are more burdened down by the world we live in. The world and life WE created, not God. Christmas brings in challenges of budgets and expectations. It brings it excuses to party and the opportunity to eat unhealthy and drink too much. With it comes cultural pressures from friends and family to be certain places at certain times and to "join in" celebrations that are really not honoring Him or ourselves.
We come through this final week of advent almost still NOT ready. We are missing something.
Jesus embraced the world with its poverty and conflict when He lived among us. Today He desires to embrace each of us right now, even while you are feeling distant. Can you spend this week seeking Him and preparing your heart for this joy He offers you? Open your hands and heart and you will receive treasures unimaginable to your thinking.
Words of my Heart, Laurie
“Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” - Luke 1
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