How are you feeling this Advent? What’s going through your mind?
Top of the list for many of us is ‘there is exhaustion’ – the last two years have been extraordinary and, while things are more normal than they have been in a while, the cumulative effect of the pandemic-induced changes and challenges lives on. We’re looking forward to Christmas but, if we’re honest, we’d rather have a nice long nap.
Fear and darkness
For others of us, ‘there is fear’ might be up there too. It’s not just the world as a whole that is facing challenges, but our evangelical constituency is facing unprecedented pressure from the outside and a humbling awareness of some things that are very wrong on the inside. Whirring in the background of many a mind is a sense of insecurity – an awareness that there is likely to be further challenge and change ahead.
