Do you see what I see?

I am writing this from my desk in the quiet hours of the morning with instrumental hymns playing in the background. There is a stillness present. A moment of pause. Our usually active church is overcome with inactivity.

Nothing to see here...

Or is there? Though it is quiet and still, under the surface, there is great anticipation brewing. Though it feels like the pause button has been pressed, I get the feeling that something exciting is going to happen at any moment.

I sense that God is going to pierce the silence and penetrate the stillness with God’s prominent presence and God’s great wonder working power.

This is what Advent is all about...Advent is about the mundane being interrupted by the miraculous. Advent is about the birth of something new as we toil in the old ways of being. Advent is about God infusing our weary world with hope and joy through Jesus.

But this interruption, this birth, this infusion of God through Jesus is about substantially more than this moment in my office and the calendar season of Advent. First Baptist Family, as people of God living between Ascension and Advent, standing on the brink of 2024, I invite us to open our eyes to the new thing God is about to do in our lives, individually and as a congregation.

There may be nothing to see now, but if you squint...

Do you see what I see?

In Christ’s Love,

Pastor Donna Olivia Owusu-Ansah