If you fix your eyes on the deadness of winter, if you dull and numb your brain to all other possibilities, then there is a reasonable chance that you will not be able to conceive of a rose.
If you spend your time among wild animals bent on survival, you may then not be able to conceive of peace.
If you spend your nights awake and staring deeply into the darkness, you may struggle to understand the hope of the light.
If you close your eyes to the hope that Jesus brought into the world 2015 years ago, then you will probably not be able to conceive of His return.
If you look at the history of the world that God has made, if you let yourself see how frequently He has turned hopelessness into hope, impossibility into possibility, tender stems into full and beautiful roses, then it just may be that Advent this year can give you hope beyond reason.
Lo, how a rose e'er blooming
From tender stem hath sprung...
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