Podcast - Hope is a Thing with Feathers

James Wheeler was back with us this Sunday! As we take the first step into Advent 2022, we might remember that the first week focuses on hope. Hope is a funny thing, maybe even with feathers as Emily Dickinson once wrote. What does hope look like for each one of us in December 2022? And how are our hopes shaped and formed in our hearts? Certainly, consumerism and materialism want to shape our hearts! The whole Advent season is just a blur of voices and expectations at times. But what does God want to shape in us? Mary, the mother of Jesus, also had hopes and dreams and these were shaped in wild and surprising ways by God. Is Mary an exemplar of what it means to hope? Spoiler alert, the answer is yes!