Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

beginning

  • This week, we read about the beginning of the good news. Mark’s gospel is a story without an ending. It only ever begins.

  • The turn from Advent 1 to 2 is the reset to the beginning from the end. An action that reminds us of more than the coming Christ child.

  •   I tell people they won’t get the origin when they ask. That isn’t the story they actually want. That jumbled mess of confusion and diminished dreams pierced by a stunning bit of clarity. That sounds like a grand story of adventure and it is always mundane, normal. The story equivalent of a ham sandwich.…