When you meant this year to savour the slow, unhurried journey of Advent…but instead found yourself late one evening, boys in tow, visiting five different supermarkets because December snuck up on you, and suddenly it was the 4th and the traditional chocolate Advent calendars for the boys still weren’t sorted.
Was it more for the teenagers than for Oscar? Yes.
Were they low-key anxious that this tradition might not happen? Also yes.
Did the final supermarket deliver? Praise be, yes.
Meanwhile, thanks to Oscar’s full commitment to the cause, you’d managed to collect chocolate at every stop along the way.
So as it turns out Advent didn’t start slow this year. It has started at full speed, messy, funny and a bit frantic.
But even here, in the rush and the ordinary chaos, God still meets us.
Because Advent isn’t really about having everything prepared on time.
It’s about a God who arrives into real life – into a stable, into mess, into families doing their best, into moments that feel anything but holy.
So let this be the reminder, that even when the season feels frantic, things have been missed and you’re running late, grace still finds you.
And God is with us.
Blue Skies & Lollipops 