Love is the key to emerging from societal darkness. If all of us decided to do what we could to try to make a difference in someone’s life, our province would be a far better place. There is hope and light as Alberta’s recovery continues to unfold as we hold the best GDP growth predictions in the country and many major investment announcements happening weekly.Īs 2021 draws to a close please take the time to be thankful for what we have and remember the many that face the season with heartache. Even the smallest deeds go a long way.ĭuring incredibly challenging times many choose to complain about the economy, others respond with fear and try to hide from the world as much as they can. With so many people unemployed, some homeless, we cannot afford to sit back and do nothing. If the holidays are a time for giving, let’s give without expecting something in return. It may be just the gift someone needs most. Let us personally reach out to that neighbor who needs a helping hand or a word of encouragement. When you sit down to your Christmas dinner of mashed potatoes and turkey, or whatever it may be, take the time to think of those less fortunate and give thanks for what we have. A time to gather with family and friends, look back with gratitude and look forward with hope. All rights reserved.Christmas is a wonderful time of year. Used with permission.Ĭopyright © 2021 Impactus | Promise Keepers Canada. When we feel despair, encourage us through community and your words, and where there is darkness, lead us to be light. When we grow weary, strengthen our hearts. Prayer: Jesus, Light of the World, during this Advent season, may we not ignore or fear darkness, but help us see the same light that came into the world 2,000 years ago still shines in us today. Are there times in your life where you’ve accepted the darkness in which you may be called to carry the light of Christ? How might practicing the four tenets of Advent Conspiracy bring about light into our dark world? (Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More, Love All). Remembering the truth found in John 1:5 and the resurrection of Jesus allows us to have faith that, in the words of Frederick Buechner, “the madness and lostness we see all around us and within us are not the last truth about the world but only the next to the last truth.”Ĭonsider today how the light of Christ may shine into the darkness around you.
We experience suffering in relationships, through disease and death, and seeing the world run by and for those in power. He who experienced all of the darkness, even death itself, and was not overcome now dwells in us as God’s Spirit.Īs followers of Jesus, we still live in a world where darkness seems ever-present. Even amidst the great deal of darkness in this world, the light of Jesus Christ shines bright. Right here John sums up the season of Advent.
“That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it.” With a confident foreshadowing of the story’s end, John assures us who will ultimately come out on top. John has barely begun his gospel narrative before introducing this cosmic conflict as the reason God the Father sent the Son. John’s take on Jesus coming into the world was that He was light driving out darkness. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. Through him all things were made without him nothing was made that has been made. Theme of the Week: Advent: Hopeful Expectationīible Verse: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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