What Are You Waiting For?
As Advent approaches, we are excited to announce the arrival of What are you Waiting for? -- an LGBTQIA+ Affirming Advent Devotional.
On behalf of QCF, Executive Director Bukola Landis-Aina is a member of the Collective of Queer Christian Leaders (CQCL), the mission of which is to combat white Christian Supremacy through centering Queer people and innovative collaboration.
Select leaders of CQCL from the National LGBTQ Task Force, Disciples LGBTQ+ Alliance, Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests, the Open and Affirming Coalition of the United Church of Christ, Room for All, and Transmission Ministry Collective joined efforts to build a seasonal resource as representatives of the CQCL.
In partnership with our friends in the Collective of Queer Christian Leaders, we’re so glad for this opportunity to accompany you and yours through this Advent season. Within the devotionals we’ll share over the next month, we hope to subvert the traditions that bind us blindly to the prejudice of the past, while offering grounding for the present and hope for the future.
Whether you download the PDF version below or follow along via our weekly blog, you’ll be greeted each week with a devotional by a member of our Collective, or a song, prayer or poem for reflection or meditation on the messages of the season.
Thank you for being with us. And now, we ask- What are you Waiting for?
Waiting for Emmanuel
Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son and shall name him Emmanuel.”
The words of the prophet Isaiah are at times magnificently hopeful, while hard to believe. As the sun breaks through the storm to create the rainbow, God’s sign of promise and pride in the diversity of Her creation comes to us as Her son.
Prophesied to break through the disaster and violence, this miracle seemed then and perhaps still now to be impossible. God’s love, however, infinitely calls each of us worthy.
By sending Her only son to be with us, knowing what that will ultimately mean shows Her persistence. He would become like his siblings in every respect, each and every one of us.
That love for us, in all our queerness and transness, through failures and fighting is the ultimate faithfulness to God, whose grace sends these signs to help us believe.
Prayer: God, as we remember how you came to us to abide with us once more, may we find wonder close by each day of this season. Amen.
Mitchel Leet, Room for All
This resource is available to our communities to download, print and distribute within your communities at no charge. To support future resources, we invite you to make a donation as part of our Giving Tuesday Campaign here!
Next Steps
You can download the entire What Are You Waiting For? devotional, which has daily entries from various voices from the Collective of Queer Christian Leaders, below.
