The word “Advent” comes from the Latin word “adventus,” which means “a coming, approach, arrival.” It’s a way of focusing our minds at this busy time on the real reason for the season (spoiler: it’s Jesus).
We often use four candles at Advent to represent four themes: hope, peace, joy, and love.
We will be following this pattern throughout December:
Week 1 – Hope: Prophecy
Week 2 – Peace: Bethlehem
Week 3 – Joy: Shepherd’s
Week 4 – Love: Angel’s
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. – John 3:16
Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. – 1 John 4:7-8
Who in your life can you show God’s love to today?

The three Maries at the empty tomb – Psalter of Eleanor of Aquitaine (ca. 1185) Public Domainhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Images_from_the_life_of_Christ_-_The_three_Maries_at_the_empty_tomb_-_Psalter_of_Eleanor_of_Aquitaine_(ca._1185)_-_KB_76_F_13,_folium_023r.jpg
Dying with Jesus, by death reckoned mine;
Living with Jesus a new life divine;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine,
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.
Moment by moment I’m kept in His love,
Moment by moment I’ve life from above;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine;
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.
Never a battle with wrong for the right,
Never a contest that He doth not fight;
Lifting above us His banner so white;
Moment by moment I’m kept in His sight.
Never a trial that He is not there,
Never a burden that He doth not bear;
Never a sorrow that He doth not share,
Moment by moment, I’m under His care.
Never a heartache, and never a groan,
Never a teardrop, and never a moan;
Never a danger but there on the throne
Moment by moment He thinks of His own.
Never a weakness that He doth not feel,
Never a sickness that He cannot heal;
Moment by moment, in woe or in weal,
Jesus, my Saviour, abides with me still.
Find somewhere quiet and give this a listen, asking God to speak to you through the song: