Thoughts on peace this advent
Today
we continue our journey through Advent, the theme for this week is peace. Hope (last week’s theme) and peace go
together. In today’s readings we are offered some amazing images of hope and
peace, especially in Isaiah; images of both predator and prey lying together in
peace. Given the events of this year this seems so distant. And yet we are
called to be a people who live out of this hope despite the evidence.
In the
reading from Matthew we are given the image of being re-rooted. Advent is a
time to ask ourselves what pots we are currently rooted in and how they help or
hinder our life in God. It offers us a time to open ourselves to the
possibility of being re-rooted into God’s peace, hope love and joy (the themes
for Advent).
During
this week I invite you to take time at the end of each day to give thanks for
ways God brought peace and hope into your day,
and to reflect on the roots that might help you to live peace.
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