What do you expect out of life? What do you expect out of your spiritual journey? I was pondering on the first gig I went to post pandemic, I went to see Ferocious Dog, I was full of expectation of what it would be like, how I would feel, we stood at the back that night, just a little apprehensive, but it would be the first of many I went to over the next few months. As I attended each gig my expectations only increased as I immersed myself more fully into the experience. I wonder if this is true for a lot of things, our expectancy levels become more engaged, as we enter more fully into the activities we engage with? I have been to lots more gigs over the last eighteen months or so, and even though I have an idea what they might be like I don’t really know, and the more I enter into them more fully, the more I get out of them.
So I wonder what you expect out of advent, if anything? We journey knowing what the story has to offer, and yet each day through advent we have new and different experiences, things that we will have never done before, things that we have done before, but maybe take for granted, and things that are challenging. And yet the advent journey asks us to expect something. That’s why I chose this song, I really don’t enjoy winter, but I know that summer is coming, of course it won’t be the same as last year, but it will still come.
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Expect
Expect as you engage
Expect change
Expect
What are you expecting out of this season of advent?
Stop for a moment
What are you waiting for?
We are a community of faith.
Strandlopers on a journey.
What do you expect in this season of advent
By God’s grace we go.
Amen
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Rob Wylie is the founder of BeachcomberFX and guides its leadership team. He has worked in the North East for over 20 years and has vast experience from various roles he has held. He has a passion for Fresh Expressions of Church and Pioneer Ministry as well as beer, beaches and Miniature Schnauzers.