The darkness closes in. Sadness, grief, loss, or some unspeakable sense of emptiness paralyzes. Each step feels like walking against the tide, pressing against of wall of nothingness. It seems easier to close the blinds. Turn over in bed. Lay in the dark. Days are shorter. Nights are longer. The whole planet has got the…

  Collapse and Hope Rev. Doug Floyd Sun and moon turned dark. Stars falling from skies. Smoke and fire in the sky. Everything is quaking. Welcome to Advent…The beginning of the end of all things. Advent breaks into our world like a thunderclap or a meteor crashing down from the skies and reverberating across the…