The message of John the Baptist had some bizarre clothing.
You remember, it was a shirt of camel's hair and a diet of wild honey and locusts.
This year that same message has its own bizarre clothing: medical masks and a diet of anxiety, worry, and frustration.
The message of John the Baptist had some bizarre clothing.
You remember, it was a shirt of camel's hair and a diet of wild honey and locusts.
This year that same message has its own bizarre clothing: medical masks and a diet of anxiety, worry, and frustration.
Different clothes but it's the same deal. Both John and Covid ask us to question our priorities, examine our habits, and perhaps make substantive changes to the way we're living.
Just as those early pilgrims who flocked to the Jordan to be baptized by John were hunkering down under the oppression of Roman forces, so are we hunkering down, beneath forces outside our control.
John's challenge is also ours: not to be hunkered down spiritually even though we're hunkered down physically.
How are we not to allow the isolationism, disconnection, and weary prospect of a really long, dark, winter define who we are and who we want to be as disciples of Jesus?
What kind of attitude, habits, and lifestyle changes must we make to approach this challenging time with hope, courage, and confidence in God?
This is the challenge of Covid, this is the challenge of Advent: preparing the way of the Lord not hindered by our daunting circumstances, but clothed with trust and hope that things will work out.
We’re being called to the Jordan.
Come, let us go together.
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