Sunday, December 12, 2021

Dear God,

As the pastor ended his sermon with an amen, a thought came to me.  May the old story become a new story and may the new story become my story.

How many times have I read or heard Mary's story, of Gabriel coming to her to tell her she would become the mother of God?  I preached it for over two decades.  Sometimes it is difficult to find a new, meaningful way to preach the story.  Yet today the preacher did it.

Faith opens the door to old stories and new.  As we open our hearts and souls more and more to you, the old story can become new, and the new story can become ours.  As we walk the journey of Advent, who would not want to carry inside the old, new, my story? 

You are God;

there is none

like you.

As we

walk beside you,

Holy One,

old and new

become one

and the same.

Then miraculously

they can become

our story.

On this

holy morning

of worship,

it did become

my story.

Thank you

for the miracle.

Love, Andrea