Advent 2025, Week 3: Psalm 139, Preview
What is weighing heavily on your heart and mind this week?
Here are a few snippets of text conversations I had this week, all of show the tell-tale signs of burden. Maybe one of these will resonate with you.
“Gonna have a hard conversation this weekend, with [—]: “Stop drinking and coming home or find another place to live.””
“We are not sending out Christmas cards this year due to our ACA health insurance going from $835 a month to $3000 a month so we are cutting back.”
“I’m not sure how it took the contractor SEVEN MONTHS… or how I didn’t murder them in the process, but alas… we finally have a bathroom and they are NOT EVER coming into my house again!”
“The difficult meeting went about as well as can be expected. There were tears of sadness but expressed gratitude for the stable housing she has had while in the program and the things she has learned.”
What burdens are you feeling?
On this third week of Advent, I’m excited to once again welcome guest blogger, Molly Stouffer, who will be talking about the reality of the burdens we feel in life. Molly is a pastoral ministries student at Regent University. I first met her when she was a student in one of my classes at Lancaster Bible College. Since that time, she and her boyfriend Colin became active participants in our church family, and Molly preached for me three times. This past summer she completed a ministry internship at her home church in Maryland. She then decided to stay home, transferring to Regent’s online program, so she could help care for her mother.
Molly will be following our Advent devotional’s theme for week three of Advent, “Even the Darkness is Not Dark,” based on Psalm 139. I encourage you to read Psalm 139 ahead of time. What does Psalm 139 have to say about the burdens we carry?
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