December 3, 2019
Tuesday’s Thoughts on Scripture comes from Isaiah 35:1a: The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom. (NRSV)
What can be more hopeful than the blooming of flowers in spring? Those first buds are amazing to see following the fallow of winter and fill us with hope for a new season. Flowers blossoming in the desert can bring even more joy, as wilderness and dry land surprisingly give way to beauty with the coming of just a bit of moisture.
As we journey through this season of Advent, waiting to celebrate once again the coming of Jesus as a babe in a manger, we also wait the coming again of Jesus at the end of all things. What joy that will be upending a world that seems awfully barren at times - filled with the desert of fear and illness and the dry land of hopelessness and anger. Jesus brings drops of cool water to our world now, and promises to bring floods in the future. We can rejoice in hope at this promise!
(Photo courtesy of our vacation through Idaho in 2008 - a field filled with wildflowers in spring and a hopeful sight now as we near winter.)
Blessings.
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