This Sunday afternoon at 3:00 we are having our Annual Blue Christmas service. This service is that time when we pause to recognize that sometimes the Christmas season can be difficult for some people. Maybe money is tight and the stress of trying to meet expectations is unbearable. Maybe this is the year that an adult child is not coming home for the first time (or conversely that the grandparents can no longer travel in the winter). Maybe this is that first Christmas after a death in the family, or maybe is the the 10th, or 21st, or 40th...
For whatever reason, Christmas can be hard. And so we need to give each other space to feels the hardness, We need to ask how God is speaking into the anxiety or the emptiness this Christmas.
Because God is. God speaks to our joy and to our sorrow, to our hope and to our despair, to our comfort and to our discomfort.
The
Scripture passages we will read on Sunday afternoon are:
- Isaiah 40:1-11
- Luke 2:1-8
As usual, we will have time for people to light candles as a part of our quieter reflection on where God is in the midst of the season.
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