A couple weeks ago I attended a Christmas brunch and soaked up the beautiful words of a wise woman. It was one of those moments where the minute Laura started speaking was the same minute a lump arrived in my throat. Her words spoke straight to my heart.
A group of preschoolers had just left the stage after singing Jingle Bells as best they could, most with smiles on their faces. Laura remarked of their smallness, their sweetness and then asked, "How did we get here? So busy and burdened?"
She spoke of Advent as being a time of preparing for Jesus' "coming" and that for her the word "longing" was what was on her heart this year. Advent as a season to express longing back to Jesus. She urged us all to listen, to be still, to pour out our desires to Jesus. She shared a verse she had recently discovered:
"What a person desires
is unfailing love."
-- Proverbs 19:22
Laura urged us to prepare room in our hearts and our lives for Jesus to come and reminded us that unless He shows up in our weary hearts, unless He rescues us, we will show up empty handed in the ways that matter most in our lives.
"Pray. Meditate. Read scripture," she offered. "He wants to come for you. He will come for you."
-- Lillian Craze
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