Chase The Kangaroo

Advent Week One – Hope

The season begins in the quiet before dawn. Advent does not rush in with banners or noise. It settles over the landscape like a cold morning fog. You feel it before you see it, a low ache and a pull toward a light that has not yet arrived.

This is where Hope makes its home.
Not in brightness, but in the dark that leans toward morning.

What Hope Feels Like

• The moment the horizon softens even though the sun is still hidden.
• The long breath you take before stepping outside, sensing the world is shifting in ways you cannot name.
• The courage to keep walking when nothing around you has changed.

Each of these is an invitation to enter Advent rather than simply mark it on the calendar.

Why We Miss It

• December pulls our attention into lists, noise, and hurry.
• We mistake preparation for productivity.
• We brace for the season instead of receiving it.
• We imagine Hope is an emotion, yet it is often the faint sense that something good is moving toward us.

Noticing what dulls our attention helps us recover a posture of expectancy.

How to Notice It

• Step outside before the house wakes. Stand in the cold and let your eyes rest on the dim edge of the horizon.
• Walk a familiar path in the half-light. Watch how the world seems to hold its breath before daybreak.
• Sit with the question that rises when everything else grows quiet: What am I longing for that I have not dared to say out loud?

These small acts are not tasks. They are ways of opening the door to wonder.

Try This Week

• Begin one morning in darkness. No phone. No noise. Only you and the horizon.
• Name one place in your life that needs a new beginning.
• End the day by asking where you sensed God drawing near, even if only by a few degrees.

Hope does not always shine.
Sometimes it nudges you toward the next step.
Sometimes it whispers that the light is already on its way.

This mid-week Field Note supports the Christmas Season series. Each week we listen to the landscape and to our own lives in motion, learning again how to wait, watch, and walk with expectation.

”But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in You.” ~ King David

Psalm 39:7