Sorrow will Flee Away
Isaiah 35:1-10 - Isaiah's Vision of the Blossoming Desert It will blossom profusely... The first two weeks of Advent we walk through the wilderness. We mourn and confess our sins and the systemic sin of the world in which we live in. It is a step into darkness; the dark ways of this world and the darkness of our very souls. As we walk through the wilderness of our sin the proper response is lament and contemplation. We lament the evil depths humanity (including me) is capable of wallowing in. We contemplate - we recognize that something is not right here and hope to God there’s a better way. It’s not hard to feel like God has left us while we walk through the wilderness. It is easy to feel like He’s distant, like He doesn’t care, or like He doesn’t hear our prayers. But even in the wilderness, flowers bloom. The crocus is a small flower that thrives in the dry, gray wilderness. It blooms late in the season. After all the other flowers have had their turn, it blo