Every year Hollywood United Methodist Church curates advent devotions on their website. Today Angela's devotion was featured.
Isaiah 40: 1-11
Comfort. Just the word brings a little bit of calmness to me
when I hear it. There are many ways that we look for, find, and give comfort.
Comfort food – a hot meal on a rainy day, cookies made just like grandma’s, soup
when we are feeling under the weather. Comforting others – giving a hug to
someone in pain, a smile to someone we see on the street, a warm hello to a
co-worker, all brings comfort. Comforting things – a favorite pillow to fall
asleep against, a favorite shirt on the day of the big presentation, a talisman
to hold and look at while we think things through.
We are all looking for comfort on the bad days and the good,
through our friends and family and we seek to be a comfort to those around us.
Isaiah 40:1-11 is a reminder that the comfort is there for us to take. We don’t
need to go out looking for it. God is our comfort, he is making our path
straight, telling us not to fear, and gathering us in his arms to carry us
close to his heart.
Let us all remember through this holiday season and into the
new year that the comfort is all around us, we just have to feel God wrapping
his arms around us.
1 comment:
Mary Anne Kennedy Lyberg Beautiful, Angela.
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