We Can’t Go Alone
The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on The Second Sunday of Advent, December 8, 2024.
“This season of flickering candles and Christmas lights and carols can have a shadow side filled with loneliness and grief. For many it feels like anything but the happiest time of year. And yet, the season offers us so many opportunities for kinship and connection. When we are grieving we can ask for help. When we are not grieving we can reach out… We can invite people into our hearts, and into our homes and into our lives. We can show that in God’s family no one has to face their sorrow alone, and no one has to celebrate their victories alone and let them grow hollow. What would it look like for us in this community to foster deeper connections in this season with each other, with our neighbors, with our extended family, with the people we work with or volunteer with? What would it be like to dare to move beyond pleasantries? Nice pleasantries, nothing wrong with them, but what would it be like to share your messy, wholly complicated life?”
Liberating Words:
Ecclesiastes 4: 9 - 12
Ruth 1: 1 - 19