Low: An Honest Advent Devotional

by John Pavlovitz Read a Preview Not feeling particularly merry or bright this season? LOW is for you.  Let’s be honest about Advent: we're often forced to put on a happy face, to pretend we’re merry when we’re frustrated and stressed and exhausted by the expectations of others. And this year, we’re also experiencing despair, grief, and trauma, as we wonder how we’ll ever get through a COVID Christmas and what the new year will bring.  In this honest Advent devotional, bestselling progressive Christian author John Pavlovitz reminds us that God came to meet us in the low places in our lives, in the gritty, messy reality of the world. In these daily devotionals for the holiday season, Jesus walks with us, reminding us that the journey isn’t about escaping this world to an elevated Heaven somewhere else, but to bring Heaven down. “God with us” is Jesus, getting low. Each devotional includes a scripture and Advent reflection on Jesus meeting us on the ground, in the grit of our real and m