Sunday Stories: Advent and Looking for Light
Today we enter my favorite (liturgical) season of the year, Advent, where we keep watch for what is coming—glimmers of hope even as the days and their light grow shortest. Will you abide with me?
Nine years ago on the first Sunday of Advent 2013, I began a practice suggested by a friend who wanted to help me find my way out of the isolated place of grief and despair I’d found myself inhabiting a year after my beloved father’s death.
“Remember,” my friend said, “to look for th…