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Thank you to the wonderful musicians and all who came out and participated in Hanging of the Greens!

The season of Advent gives us an opportunity to pause our “go go go” lives and do something that we might often find mundane or even frustrating, to wait. When our time and energy seem so limited, having to wait for anything can appear to be an unwanted nuisance. What we wait for during Advent, though, is different than “the next available representative” or the completion of a needed service to our car; we wait for the world to be made whole through the coming of Christ. This type of waiting is meant to be active and purposeful. We wait for hope, hope that motivates us. We wait for peace, peace that urges us to become peacemakers. We wait for love, love that directs our lives and heals our relationships. We way for joy, joy that reorients and reprioritizes our goals and motivations. Waiting, as we are called to do during the holy season of Advent, is not mundane or passive, but rather inspiring and transformative.  

This Advent season, we seek to reinforce and redefine what it means to purposefully wait for the hope, peace, joy, and love of Christ by repurposing some of the ways the waiting process is made more tolerable in other areas of our lives. We can all recall times that music is given to us while we wait on the phone to pacify the boredom of inaction.  

What if the powerful and diverse medium of music were used, not to pacify the boredom of waiting, but to inspire the very active and purposeful nature of waiting for Christ. Perhaps we will catch a glimpse of, in the melody and or words of music, in ways that move our heart and feet to wait with purpose.  

This advent, members of FPC are going to have the opportunity to share music (whether it be sacred music, hymns, or even popular music) that helps them be inspired to purposefully wait and work toward the amazing promised realities of Christ’s coming. We will have a chance to hear music that reinforces and even reframes the promised gifts of Christ and help to invigorate us to make our waiting active, exciting, and purposeful.

For more information, contact Andy Morgan at amorgan@fpcknox.org.The season of Advent gives us an opportunity to pause our “go go go” lives and do something that we might often find mundane or even frustrating, to wait. When our time and energy seem so limited, having to wait for anything can appear to be an unwanted nuisance. What we wait for during Advent, though, is different than “the next available representative” or the completion of a needed service to our car; we wait for the world to be made whole through the coming of Christ. This type of waiting is meant to be active and purposeful. We wait for hope, hope that motivates us. We wait for peace, peace that urges us to become peacemakers. We wait for love, love that directs our lives and heals our relationships. We way for joy, joy that reorients and reprioritizes our goals and motivations. Waiting, as we are called to do during the holy season of Advent, is not mundane or passive, but rather inspiring and transformative.  

This Advent season, we seek to reinforce and redefine what it means to purposefully wait for the hope, peace, joy, and love of Christ by repurposing some of the ways the waiting process is made more tolerable in other areas of our lives. We can all recall times that music is given to us while we wait on the phone to pacify the boredom of inaction.  

What if the powerful and diverse medium of music were used, not to pacify the boredom of waiting, but to inspire the very active and purposeful nature of waiting for Christ. Perhaps we will catch a glimpse of, in the melody and or words of music, in ways that move our heart and feet to wait with purpose.  

This advent, members of FPC are going to have the opportunity to share music (whether it be sacred music, hymns, or even popular music) that helps them be inspired to purposefully wait and work toward the amazing promised realities of Christ’s coming. We will have a chance to hear music that reinforces and even reframes the promised gifts of Christ and help to invigorate us to make our waiting active, exciting, and purposeful.

For more information, contact Andy Morgan at amorgan@fpcknox.org.