Bring In the Blues
Sunday, November 30, 2025
And All Will Wake in the Love and Light
Of Christ,
Like Children Filled With Expectation of
Impossible Things,
for These Impossible Times.
Jeremiah 31:34
No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.
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Matthew 21:15-16
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he did, and heard the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became angry and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,
‘Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise for yourself’?”
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Words of Grace for Today –
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As another New Church Year begins, the wind blows and the colour blue for Advent arrives. The blue of waiting and boredom, the blue of royalty, the blue of despondency, the blue of deep yearning, the blue of hope, the blue of clear skies, the blue of the water into which we are baptized. These are the blues of Advent, four Sundays of preparing, as sombre as our other season of preparation, Lent. Just as Lent is more than giving up things, so Advent is more than waiting for the celebrations to begin.
These are the days (once again and always) to acknowledge
that in our baptisms
God has equipped us to know the Lord, for our sins are forgiven.
And we are freed to share God’s good things with everyone, especially those in need, and to sing God’s praises
unending.