Trinity tried something new this week and Mrs. G shared a sermon about 'waking up' in Advent. I usually am the first to get out Christmas decorations and to get ready for the season, but this year, I've been a little torn. Don't get me wrong...I love the challenge that my new job brings, I love learning and the community of LTSP and I am finally feeling like I belong to a community. But in the midst of all this change, there has also been heartache and anxiety as I watch my parents work through an acute mental health crisis. The past month, I've acutally slowed down my frenetic pace and really just tried to get through. I've been walking around in a fog.
But the message of the first Sunday of Advent is to be watchful and awake. Mrs. G used the example of participating in countless fire drills to teach her how to be prepared in the event something happens. I thought about that and could even fill in other things that we practice to be ready. And then as she made the analogy to church and the things we do about church every week, I had an a-ha moment. This is why we worship. We work together to be ready for when Jesus comes again. We pray, read, sing, listen.
I've been putting off blogging for a while because this is something that makes me vulnerable. In the middle of worship, I started to come awake and to understand that all my time spent in school, in church, in study of scripture, being part of a Christian community...all these things are helping and supporting me...I've probably driven a few of my friends a bit batty with my need to stay connected, but that's what friends a for: to put up with my crap and to still be my friend.
That's enough for now.
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