Today, a day where words seem unlikely and a blog post impossible. Today, I read the following post from another woman spotlighting, Elizabeth who becomes mother of John and is a close relative of Mary the mother of Jesus Christ...her full story is found in chapter 1 of the book of Luke in the Bible. I find it encouraging and hope grows within...HOPE for the future...and HOPE for today.
Advent...anticipated arrival...the coming. The greatest arrival anticipated...the greatest coming: Emanuel (God with us).
"...God, when He comes-He shows up in this fetal ball.
He who carved the edges of the cosmos curved Himself into a fetal ball in the dark, tethered Himself to the uterine wall of a virgin, and lets His cells divide...
He gave up the heavens that were not even large enough to contain Him and lets Himself be held in a hand.
The mystery so large becomes the Baby so small, and infinite God becomes infant.
The Giver becomes the Gift, this quiet offering.
This heart beating in the chest cavity of a held child, a thrumming heart beating hope, beating change, beating love, beating the singular song you've been waiting for-that the whole dizzy planet's been spinning round waiting for.
Waiting.
Advent."
Ann Voskamp
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