Yonder Breaks a New and Glorious Morn

This Christmas though we reunite with remnants of our lives past, we long and yearn for better. A post-pandemic life grows more distant as each variant brings greater uncertainty, forcing us to recognize there shall be no immediate relief. I myself am still at times in disbelief of all that has changed, much of which I will not return to (like my job that I quit this past year).

During this Advent season, I’ve had one song on constant repeat - Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus. It’s become my prayer - a yearning and hope that I know won’t be satisfied by any earthly outcome, but rather in the promised return of our Savior of Jesus Christ.

Advent is wonderfully described by E.M. Welcher below:

“Advent is the hard-won faith Christ gave us the hour he first cultivated us into good soil; the hour we first believed that the light of the world still shines amid all this desperate darkness. When we celebrate Advent, we are daring to taste and see that God is good in the midst of present desolation”

Let us dare to taste and see that He is good. Merry Christmas!