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This week’s Advent reflection comes from Sister Diane Przyborowski:
As I begin to write this reflection for the second Sunday of Advent, I am so aware of floundering in a sea of conflicting emotions resulting from our country’s elections. It is less than a week for me but probably four weeks for you. I am still having a hard time believing that our country is so divided and that we could choose a felon and a person of very questionable moral character to be the leader of our country. Half of the voting public is rejoicing these days, and the half to which I belong is not.
What is God and Advent telling us through this experience? One message is that the Savior IS coming. How can we actively look for him or her in our everyday lives in the midst of uncertainty and darkness? How did the Jewish people, over decades, not lose their faith? How did they hang on? One way is that they relied on their scripture and their deep stories of faith and hope to sustain each other. God would not forsake them. And they stuck together, relied on each other, supported each other, and celebrated whatever would keep love alive.
This Advent, let us walk together into the Light that is always with us and in us, even in the darkness.