Advent marks the start of the Christmas season, a season that celebrates the birth of our Savior. The word advent is derived from the Latin word meaning “the coming.” It is in the coming of the child Christ and the returning of our risen King that gives us hope for a brighter tomorrow. The Prophet Isaiah reminds us of this when he writes:
The whole earth is wrapped in darkness, all people sunk in deep darkness, But God rises on you, and His sunrise glory breaks over you. Nations will come to your light, kings to your sunburst brightness.
We live in a dark time, a tough economic situation where people are losing hope and losing faith. But it is God’s radiant light that shines in these dark places and gives us hope where there once was no hope.
We light this candle as a reminder of the hope we have in the coming King.
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