The upcoming season of the year may be the one when we are most dominated by time – appointments to keep, events and celebrations to schedule (and remember!), and deadlines looming, along with constant pings from our phones as reminders of everything on our schedules.
We are beginning Advent a week early at First Lutheran this year (since we won’t have Sunday morning services on Dec. 24). The lectionary readings during the Advent season have a focus on time, but the focus is on what God is doing with time. Most importantly, God has entered into human time and has something to say about it.
That’s the reason for our Advent theme this year: Out of Time. Just what is God doing when it comes to time and to us? Out of Time explores that through the Gospel texts of this season. This theme will be a focus of our weekly Advent devotions and of the reflections during our Wednesday Advent services. We will reflect on how we experience time and how God uses our experience to meet us, challenge us, bless us, shape us and call us into holy endings and new beginnings.
Join us as we begin the season of Advent this Saturday and Sunday, November 25 and 26, and for our first Wednesday Advent services with Holden Evening Prayer on Wednesday, November 29, at noon in the Chapel and 6:30 PM in the Sanctuary.
