Day 26 - Advent 2020

Romans 16:25-27 (NIV)
Read by: Clayton

My wife and I have 2 daughters. And I will never forget the days that they were born. Both times I ended up sitting alone waiting to come into the operating room. Excitement, fear, joy, I felt it all. And as long as the 9 months felt, the 9 or 10 minutes sitting in that waiting room dragged on forever.

But as I sat there I reflected. On the waiting, on the longing itself. How we came to choose the names of each of our girls, and what it would be like to finally get to see them face to face.

Our oldest is Emma Katherine, which means wholeness and purity. We felt like the LORD was giving us that gift through her. Our youngest is named Alice Yvonne. We landed on Alice after having read a character description from Lewis Carrol, the author of Alice in wonderland. He wrote “alice is "loving and gentle", "courteous to all", "trustful", and "wildly curious, and with the eager enjoyment of Life that comes only in the happy hours of childhood, when all is new and fair, and when Sin and Sorrow are but names — empty words signifying nothing!"

Our prayer is that the LORD would give you this kind of joy this Christmas.

Today look back how the LORD as met you this Advent as we reflect with the four postures that Bobby Gross shared with us at the beginning. Listen along and respond as you’re prompted.

Then we’ll read our final passage, an exhortation from the book of Romans.

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1. What have you longed for this Advent?
   
2. What has caused you to lament this Advent?
   
3. As you look for the LORDs work among you, where have you seen the evidence of His hands?
   
4. How is the LORD inviting you to pray with Mary “let it be in me according to your word?”
   

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