Good News in a Wilderness Year - #slowadvent
Created by Annette Cater This has been a tough year, a wilderness year. For some wilderness is a place of fear and death; for some peace and stillness; for others where you go to discover God anew, to know again who we are in God and what is ours to do. Whatever our experience or understanding of wilderness, some good news would be welcome. The writers of Second Isaiah (Isaiah 40-66) offered good news to those who lived in the wilderness in exile. Jerusalem and her temple were gone. They were forsaken by God. But here was good news. What good news for us do we hear in these words? A number of commentators suggest an alternative understanding of the first line of Mark. It is the title, not the first sentence. The whole of Mark is the beginning of THE Good News. Good News shaped by Isaiah. Good News lived by Jesus. We are part of that ongoing Good News. It has been hard to hang on to that this year. We feel like the grass that withers, or those flowers that fade. The world is in chao...