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…

Train: On the right track

Read: Mark 13:32 - 37

Having the train halt right here is a great way to get around, under normal circumstances anyway. However there is a strange thing that happens depending on when you travel and how you pay… Are you entitled to free travel? Have you bought a return? Is your trip after 9:30?

When we people watch on the train do we consider that question? How much did they pay? There is so much we don’t know and would never dream of asking!

As we travel through Advent, anticipating Christ’s return, we don’t know when the Final Day will come, but we stay in a state of readiness. We are all heading in the same direction on a train. As with life we are all heading in one direction. The difference being, so many people think they have enough to pay the price when they should be looking to the one who has already paid in full.

When was the last time you bought a train ticket?

Do you enjoy people watching on a train?

Do you consider them fellow travellers or strangers to be avoided?

Pray for those unknown around you, in particular those without a ‘ticket’