In what moments do you find yourself feeling weighed down by worry, and how might shifting your focus to the anticipation of Christ’s coming help alleviate those burdens?
What practices or habits can you implement to help raise your awareness of God’s presence throughout your day?
Reflect on a time when you felt overwhelmed by worry. How might the message of Advent reshape your understanding of that experience?
Resources for Further Reflection
Essay: “On Living in an Atomic Age” by C.S. Lewis I came across this letter/ essay by C.S. Lewis this week that he wrote in response to a letter expressing fear and anxiety around the beginning of the atomic age (this essay was published in 1948). While the atomic age continues to be something very concerning, I thought C.S. Lewis’ somewhat direct response of realism was relevant for all fears and worries that weigh us down, atomic or otherwise. In it he writes,
“This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
C.S. Lewis “On Living in an Atomic Age”
You may find the rest of the essay interesting and can find it at the link above.
Thoughts on Faith 