Tuesday December 8 @ 10 am & 6:30 pm at No. 6 Mine Park or online, depending on Provincial Health orders

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81902914774?pwd=eGVEM0piNFFkTStTekVMTDBoZWUrQT09

Meeting ID: 819 0291 4774

Passcode: 291777

We are in strange times, my friends.  But you know that.  It has been a very long 2020, and as we near the end of this extraordinarily un-ordinary year we find ourselves still waiting.  Waiting in a simmering anxiety: will the case numbers rise again?  Will we enter new kinds of restrictions?  Will schools close?  Waiting to make plans for the future.  Waiting for our test to come back.  Waiting.  Waiting.  Waiting.  And of course, life continues in this waiting place, but it is a strange place indeed. 

But we must remember that we are always waiting at this time of year.  The seasons, the church calendar, it all reminds us to wait, and to learn how to wait.  And we are not accustomed to waiting – I wonder what the population of Spain is?  Oh, let me glance at this pocket computer and I will immediately find out.  I wonder what the weather will be tomorrow, Hey Alexa…

But for centuries, for millennia, this time of the year has always been a waiting place.  We wait for the return of the light.  We wait for the birth of a baby that will change the world.  And we are always waiting into the darkest part of the year.  So, this year let us embrace the dark waiting we are in, and learn how to wait in the darkness.