Jesus’s first advent came into a world of genocide, oppression, forced taxes, gender inequality, racial injustice, sexual addictions, misplaced hopes, and out of control appetites. He was birthed to an unwed teenage mom who would soon be a refugee. Let’s not glamorize christmas, but I find comfort in the world Jesus was born into - because it looks like the world I live in. BUT also because of his birth I know that things have changed and will continue to do so until his second Advent.
Advent Week 1: Christmas for the real world.