Dear Editor:
This year, Advent begins on Dec. 3. Advent is the four Sundays taking us to Christmas.
It is a time of getting ready to remember the birth of Jesus.
Christians believe Jesus is the Prince of Peace, whose yet-to-be-revealed kingdom will bring peace to the Earth. We look forward to that day, we anticipate that day, with eager longing.
The day when the war in Ukraine will be no more, when the war between Israel and Hamas will be no more. The day when the violence in Sudan, Yemen, Myanmar, Haiti will be no more. The day when peace will rule in our cities, our towns, throughout the countryside. The day when the peoples of the world will not learn war anymore.
That day is hard to imagine, hard to believe possible, yet it is exactly that promise the angels sang of in the skies above Bethlehem, “Peace on Earth, goodwill among humankind.”
This Advent we are invited to lean into, to hope towards, to orient our lives towards the coming reign of peace. We are called to be agents of that promised peace in our homes and neighbourhoods.
We are called to live towards that peace in our town, our province, our country and in the world.
Peter Bush,
Fergus