Today is the first week of Advent. In this season of anticipation, traditionally the first week is a time to reflect on the hope that is ours as followers in Jesus.
Anne Lamotte says "hope is a conversation". In the face of things we cannot make any sense of, we get only glimpses.
“We clean up beaches after oil spills. . . . We return calls and library books. We get people water. Some of us even pray. Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.”
“You start wherever you can. You see a great need, so you thread a needle, you tie a knot in your thread. You find one place in the cloth through which to take one stitch, one simple stitch, nothing fancy, just one that’s strong and true.”
As the random shooting of schoolchildren, car bombs, disease, and sadness threaten to shatter our inner compasses and our hearts, Lamott reminds us that “hope is a conversation.” What allows us to continue, and occasionally glimpse a momentary goodness, she writes, is “attention, creation, love, and dessert.”
May your week be full of....
Let's keep the conversation going....
BOOK REVIEW ‘Stitches ’ by Anne Lamott By Kathleen Hirsch
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
NOVEMBER 05, 2013
