A Blessing for Beginning Again
A Blessing for Beginning Again
Author: Kate Bowler
Source: Substack
Advent placement: 2025-12-04 (paired with [[04-dewar-s-caribbean-smooth-blended-scotch-whisky]])
Theme: An Advent blessing: living by the light of God’s coming promises.
Verbatim source text
Reproduced from calendar/2025-12-04.qmd (Whisk(e)y Advent 2025).
A Blessing for Beginning Again
God, could this be the year when we see it? The goodness that is coming, like starlight from a distant time?
Could this be the Advent when we sense it? That the springtime of the soul will one day last forever?
Could this be the Advent when we notice the inbreaking of your coming promises? Promises full of blessing: of truth so clear, so bright that every shadowy lie must flee away. Of compassion so deep, so strong that everyone is encircled in its embrace.
Of restoration so complete, so beautiful that there is gladness everywhere. And of justice so satisfying and so right, that all will be well.
May this Advent be the new beginning, as we learn to live by the light of your coming promises. Glimpsing the world through tears, while also seeing something sacred shining through too. Our Truth. Our Light. Our Promise incarnate. Amen.