Starting Sunday, December 3, 2023, you and your family can join an Advent series on the Gospel of Luke. Digitally follow along at your own pace individually or with your family with a devotion guide, worship outline, and Advent calendar to begin the Christmas season with more intentionality. Rev. Abby Cole Keller is a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, worshiping community leader, certified coach, and mother of two.
Let us look together at how joy is often a companion to many other emotions. We can feel joy in addition to feeling many other things at once: grief, anticipation, anxiety, excitement, disappointment, exhaustion. Perhaps many of us live with the myth that joy is not something we deserve—or that it is wholly out of reach. But our joy is rooted in the truth that we belong to God. Can you tether yourself to that deep truth? You deserve to feel joy—fully. The world needs your joy, even if you are weary. Our joy is better when it is shared.
And so, this Advent, we will hold space four our weariness and our joy. We will seek a “thrill of hope” in our hurting world. We will welcome joy—even and especially if, like the prophet Isaiah, we cry out for comfort (Isaiah 40:1). In this weary world, may we find many ways to rejoice.
Join me as we experience How Does a Weary World Rejoice? From Sanctified Art.com
