Advent 2025: Learning to Wait Without Losing Heart with Lorrel Toft
This week, Laurel opens up a tender, grounding reflection on Advent through the lens of waiting - not as passive endurance, but as the lived ache of longing, hope, and being human. Drawing from Elizabeth’s story, Laurel shares how waiting shapes us, how desire is not a flaw, and why the name Emmanuel still carries real comfort for people longing for healing, connection, justice, or change.
She weaves together scripture, personal experience, and a reframed look at the nativity to remind us that we don’t wait alone. God’s nearness, and the nearness we offer each other, is its own kind of…
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