Hope and Expectation in the Advent Season

December 10, 2014

Nish Weiseth provides us with a beautiful Advent reflection on expectation, hope, and justice.

“Advent is a time of expectation, but it is also a time of desperate hope. Our desires and dreams for this broken world are laid bare and the path to their fulfillment is cracked wide open with the pangs of a mother’s labor and those first cries of a newborn baby in the dark of night.”

Read more from her post, “Unquenchable Light: Thoughts on Hope and Expectation When the World Goes Dark” here.

 

Lē Weaver identifies as a non-binary writer, musician, and feminist spiritual seeker. Their work draws attention to: the ongoing trauma experienced by women and LGBTQIA people in this “Christian” society; Christ/Sophia’s desire that each of us move deeper into our own practice of non-violence; and the desperate need to move away from an androcentric conception of God.

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