ADVENT WEEK 2 — PEACE The Hidden Work Behind Closed Doors
Every parent knows what it feels like to wait for a child. Whether through birth or adoption, the anticipation grows long before the child arrives.
There’s preparation, nesting, protecting, dreaming and most of the miracle is happening where no one can see.
Mary lived that too. She carried the Savior of the world, and for months hardly anyone knew.
Heaven’s greatest work was unfolding inside her… quietly, invisibly, intentionally.
And Advent reminds us:
God still does His deepest work in hidden places.
Peace isn’t the absence of chaos. It’s the steady confidence that God is forming something sacred behind the scenes; inside hearts we cannot reach,
in seasons we cannot control, under layers we cannot peel open, in rooms we cannot walk into.
Parents of prodigals know this ache well.
We waited once for our children to arrive into the world, and now we wait again for them to arrive into healing,
into truth, into the Father’s arms.
You may not see the slightest movement.
You may not feel peace stirring anywhere in your chest right now. But peace isn’t a feeling; it’s a Person.
And that Person is faithful in the hiding.
Faithful in the forming.
Faithful in the womb-like waiting where transformation begins long before it’s visible.
Like Mary, we whisper the only prayer we can:
“Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.”
(Luke 1:38 ESV)
