In a world where words are generated in seconds, edited endlessly, and discarded just as quickly, the word written stands apart. In 2025, we are surrounded by more information than any generation before us — headlines that refresh by the minute, opinions that clash, and voices amplified by algorithms. Yet in the middle of all this noise, Advent calls us back to a quieter, older voice: the written Word of God.
Scripture has outlived empires, technologies, and trends. While platforms rise and fall, the written word of the Lord endures. In this second week of Advent, we are reminded that God chose to anchor his promises not in fleeting updates, but in written testimony — inscribed through prophets, preserved through persecution, and carried into our modern hands with purpose.
The word written slows us down. It interrupts our scrolling. It resists our demand for instant answers. Instead, it invites us into holy waiting — the same waiting practiced by those who lived centuries before Christ’s arrival. They clung to written promises of peace, a Messiah, and a restored world. We, too, are still waiting: for healing in our communities, justice in our systems, and reconciliation in our relationships.
Perhaps in 2025, our greatest spiritual discipline is not learning more but learning again to listen. The written word teaches us how to be still. It reminds us that peace is not manufactured by technology or policy but spoken into being by God himself. The same word that shaped creation now seeks to reshape us.
This Advent, we are invited to let Scripture become our true “feed” — shaping what we believe, how we love, and who we become. As we open its pages (or screens), we are drawn into a story that is bigger than our anxiety and deeper than our divisions. We discover that God is still speaking, still moving, still preparing the world for his presence.
As the second candle burns, may its light reflect the quiet strength of the Word written — steady, unchanging, and alive. And may that word prepare not only the world, but our hearts, for the coming of Christ, the Living Word.
Inner Altar 