by Marcia Mount Shoop
Mark 13:24-37
“Advent is an invitation to this kind of shedding of the sense of self in preparation for God’s incarnation, in preparation for the second coming of Divine Love. If we are so focused on ourselves and are too ego-driven, then the darkness of Advent can feel like something we want to avoid.
Darkness disarms and dissolves–we can’t see the edges of things, where things start and stop the same way. Darkness is an unveiling; it is a revealing by way of concealing the things that we cling to, to make the world make sense.”
Watch the full GCPC service on 12/3/23 here
(Scripture and sermon begin at 41:20)