Series: Words For The Beginning
December 01, 2024 | Rev. Brooke Heerwald Steiner
What are the words we long to hear when we are starting a new chapter, a new season? This week we’ll look at the story when Mary first learns about her pregnancy. This story of her begins with loving words from a messenger of God, “You are blessed.” She is not wealthy nor powerful, and yet she is blessed and chosen. Her story begins with blessing, and so does ours. We are blessed and chosen by God. Join us as we explore how we see the world when God reminds us, “you are precious in my sight.”
Series Information
Advent is a season of endings and beginnings. As a calendar year comes to a close, a new church year begins. Christ's birth ushers us into new ways of living and loving; and yet, the world as we know it spins madly on. In many ways, pregnant Mary was surrounded by endings—large and small, personal and political. But Mary proclaimed hope in a God who was and is making all things new. Christ's birth offered a beautiful new beginning for shepherds and Magi alike—all the while, King Herod tried to bring Christ's story to an end. When we ourselves navigate seasons filled with endings and beginnings, we need reminders. We need words that can feel like steady ground, like a path for our feet to find as we step forward into the unknown.
