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Have you ever noticed that those who have experienced great suffering, are also those who often seem to have a greater capacity for joy? Those who have wept bitterly, are often those same ones who laugh most sincerely. Perhaps there is some nugget of this truth being revealed as Jesus looks to John, the life he led and tells us "yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. In the 3rd week of Advent we light the Candle of Joy. We take joy in the nearness of Christ. But, joy breaks in not by eliminating pain or doubt, but by transforming it. Even John questions Jesus, and Jesus calls him great. Joy grows in wilderness soil.

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This week we reflect on the peace brought through Christ’s coming kingdom. But, Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice. In our text, John the Baptist’s fiery confrontation is the necessary disruption that prepares us for God's true peace. God's Peace calls us to address the violence within us all. There always seems to be something about the season of Advent that heightens for us the absence of "shalom" or fullness of peace we ought to experience in this world. This season invites us to listen afresh to the prophets, and to ignite our prophetic imagination for the peace to which we are ultimately called.

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