10 Minute Meditation 

20 Minutes of Reflection 

5 Minutes of Thankfulness

And Rise to new joy! 

This is your pause in the middle of the week — a moment to step out of the noise and into stillness, where something ancient and holy begins to stir.

I’m Sharon Campbell Rayment, and today we begin our Advent journey — a season not only of waiting for the Christ child, but of awakening to the light being born within us.

In this first week of Advent, we walk with Meister Eckhart, the great 13th-century mystic who spoke of the birth of God in the soul. He believed that what happened in Bethlehem is happening still — that the Eternal Word seeks to be born in each of us, in this moment, in this very breath.

Eckhart said, “We are all meant to be mothers of God. For God is always needing to be born.”

This is the essence of Advent Hope — not optimism or wishful thinking, but a quiet trust that light is rising even when the world feels dark. Hope is the pulse of divine life already moving within us, asking for room to grow.

So today, we will enter that sacred space — the womb of silence where God is always being born.