At Home In Advent

The following words for reflection are taken and adapted from “At Home In Advent - A domestic journey from Advent to Epiphany” from Gordon Giles (BRF - Bible Reading Fellowship). The entire book is available from Eden.co.uk and would be recommended to get a fuller experience of this time of devotion and meditation.

The purpose of these devotional is to give you something of an everyday object or motion which can focus our thinking through Advent. There are 3 sections:

Travelling in Advent
At Home in Advent
The run up to Christmas

This is a journey…

Bus: Christ our Routemaster

Read: Luke 9:1 - 6

A few years ago the old big red buses in London were retired and the new ones from Ballymena were put onto the streets. Some would see this as a shame and neglecting culture… but the old ones had become dangerous and needed replacing.

Likewise with Christmas, some people want to hold on to what was traditional, yet it is not currently possible. Of course our ‘traditional Christmas’ owes more to Dickens than it does to Jesus!

The nostalgia of Christmas past is only healthy if it can lead us to the future. Thankfully, as on a bus, we are not alone. We have travelling companions who can celebrate things past but remind us of things to come. We can take our time over this journey, let God drive us, take a moment to look out the window on His route.

Where is your bus heading right now?

Do you feel like you are travelling alone?

What are your hopes for the future?

Pray for all bus drivers and passengers today