This Advent I've been completing a short weekly bible study book with the CPC Women's Ministry - Columbia Presbyterian Church led by Diane Hidey (the book is Joy to the World by Lifeway).
One of the prompts from week 2 was to write "a song of thanksgiving for the hope and joy found in Jesus", and week 3 focused on the second coming of Jesus, how we are in a second advent now. Looking at my newborn baby girl and reading Isaiah 35 (exploring the predictions from the old testament of Christ's coming), I wrote this little poem:
There is hope in looking at a baby's face
A marvel nothing else can replace.
In this form, you chose to come,
all our pain to save us from.
As we wait to celebrate that love,
you whisper new hope from above.
A promise that this present state is not what you intend,
that something else is around the bend.
That you prepare a place for us,
where the desert is wet and blooms with crocus.
In December 2020 I was 7 months pregnant and reflected mostly on Mary's journey before Jesus' birth. Now, in 2025, I have a one month old and am looking more closely at the passages after Jesus' birth - how Mary looked at her little baby, saw strangers to her (the shepherds, Simeon, Anna) rejoicing at his birth, and treasured up those things in her heart. May we all treasure these things in our hearts over the next nine days, and the 12 days of Christmas after, and the rest of the year!
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