Advent Reflections
Each day in Advent, you will receive an email from St. Barnabas with words and images to invite your engagement with the season’s themes of longing and hope, preparation and expectation, listening and silence. Many of the images will not be traditional “religious” art. Advent calls us to notice the signs of God in unexpected places.
 
We invite you to prayerfully contemplate the images and absorb the words. Consider returning to them at various times during the day, letting them speak into the moment. Perhaps you will hear a word meant just for you.  

December 11th, 2019
Revelation 2:4. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the Love you had at first.  

When first we followed Jesus,
    We Loved
       We Gave
           We Shared
               We showed God’s Love
                   To all around us
 
   Trouble Came
    We became Careful
    We tested
    We closed the doors
   And only admitted
    Those who thought like us.
 
We locked the gates
    We followed the rules
    And abandoned Love
    Abandoned God
 
We forgot
    God is Love

Reflection by Dale Walker