Honest Advent: Awakening to the Wonder of God-with-Us Then, Here, and Now

by Scott Erickson

Paul, quoting Isaiah,4 doesn’t seem worried about making this claim because it’s less about making a convincing argument and more about witnessing an honest life.

Honest hope is birthed in the realness in between the messy headlines of today’s news. It invites us to consider every situation, no matter how despairing, as something we don’t have to walk through alone, but as the very birthplace for divine participation.

That’s the invitation in our lives today: to witness that same arrival of God-with-Us in all the expected and unexpected realities of our human lives. An honest Advent that leads to an honest hope.