Check back often this week as we share details on our Christmas project in Peru from those who were able to go! For now, enjoy this beautiful post by Cheryl Lawrie of http://holdthisspace.org.au/ that she wrote ahead of a visit to a prison in the midst of advent. A call to hope!
there are few things more fragile
than an embryo of hope
given its chance of life only by those who say ‘yes’
to its promise
like the prophets who said yes to God’s urging
Mary who said yes to an angel
and Joseph who said yes to his Mary
like the people of faith through all of time
who have said yes to the promise of love
and as we sit by the side of our wall
- whatever that wall might be –
surrounded by the rubble and rubbish
of broken dreams and lives
what faith does it take to imagine
an embryo of hope
being brought to life here?
what ‘yes’ are you able to say
for it to be born in our world?
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