What is your favorite Advent hymn or song?
What is your earliest Christmas memory and why is it important for you?
Near the end of the film, “The Santa Clause,” a little boy, Charlie, is arguing with his father, mother, and step-father about his father, Scott Calvin, being Santa Clause. Scott is confused about who he is and how he became Santa.
Charlie tosses his dad a snow globe that was given to him by Bernard, the head elf, the night Scott became Santa and shouts, “Remember.”
The Regional Youth Council invites you to “remember” this Advent and Christmas season. Yes, we know memory is painful and joyful. Maybe that is why some of us embrace the pace of life that rushes one through December. Parties, gifts, travel, or life circumstances consume the time we have to experience Advent’s lessons: waiting or anticipation are but two.
So, slow your pace.
Spend some time in silence. Listen . . .
Think through what you saw, heard, tasted, felt, smelled.
You are a child of God.
Remember. . .
Go and see what God has made known to you.
Click here to download the Advent devotional written by members of the Regional Youth Council. The devotional includes reflections on traditional Advent and Christmas biblical texts from guest writer, Rev. Dr. Lisa Davison.
