About This Study
In this Advent journey, we walk through four sacred spaces ,not merely places on a map, thin places, dwelling points of mystery where heaven bends low to meet the earth. Each one holds a whisper of God’s coming, a rhythm of waiting, a lesson in love.
We begin in Eden, the garden of beginnings, flourishing with promise, yet shadowed by longing. Here, we feel the ache of what was lost and the deep pulse of hope that something, Someone, will come to restore it. Eden teaches us to remember the shalom harmony our hearts still hunger for.
Then, we come to the House of Loreto, where Mary hears the impossible invitation. This small home became the holy space of surrender when the spirit led fiat opened eternity’s door. In Mary’s audacious courage, we learn how surrendering to grace can make any dwelling radiant with God.
From there, we move to Elizabeth’s house, the hill-country home of recognition and joy. Two women meet, two promises leap, and prophecy is born in the embrace of friendship. Here, the waiting becomes communal, a shared wonder that blesses the world through presence and praise.
And finally, we arrive at the Stable, where the Word takes on flesh and breath and cry. The poorest of places becomes the cradle of glory. This is where our long Advent ends, or rather, begins anew, with Love swaddled in straw, God among us, Emmanuel.
Each place invites us to abide, to name the ache in our stories, to dwell in longing, in trust, in companionship, in wonder and awe. To find, within our own ordinary rooms and restless hearts, the space where God is still being born.
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Welcome, dear friends…
to this Advent journey,
a pilgrimage of the heart,
through four sacred spaces
where heaven once touched the earth.
These are the places of Advent.
Eden.
Loreto.
Elizabeth’s home.
And a stable under starlight.
Each one holds a mystery…
a whisper of God’s coming,
a rhythm of waiting,
a quiet invitation to abide.
We begin… in Eden —
the garden of beginnings and original designs,
Here, everything was whole once,
every breath in attunement with God’s own.
But even in the ache of what was lost,
something sacred remains,
a longing, a promise,
a memory of shalom harmony still written in our bones.
Eden reminds us:
our waiting is not empty.
It is the remembering of love
that has never stopped pursuing us.
Next, we come to the House of Loreto,
a humble home,
walls worn by daily life,
where the eternal interrupted the ordinary.
Here, a young woman listens
and her “yes” ripples through all of time.
This is the place of surrender,
of saying yes to what we cannot yet understand.
The Word takes root
in the quiet soil of her trust.
And then,
we travel to Elizabeth’s house,
high in the hills.
Two women meet,
and the air is thick with recognition.
Promises leap,
joy erupts,
and prophecy dances between them.
This is the place of friendship,
of shared waiting,
of laughter through tears.
Because God often comes to us
in the embrace of another who believes.
Finally, we arrive
at the Stable —
the poorest of places,
and yet, the holiest of all.
Here, in straw and silence,
the Infinite takes on skin.
The cry of a newborn
splits the night open,
and suddenly,
everything is sacred again.
Eden.
Loreto.
Elizabeth’s home.
The Stable.
Four places.
Four doors into the mystery of Advent.
Each one inviting us
to abide —
in longing,
in surrender,
in communion,
in awe.
Because even now,
in the quiet corners of our own hearts,
God is still being born.
Join us in the weeks ahead
as we linger in each place —
listening, wondering,
and waiting together
for the One who comes to dwell among us.
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