Creation: Advent Calendar 2024

In the season of Advent, the Christian Church looks forward to Christ’s second coming—eagerly, actively, and hopefully. It is a season of preparation, and of expectant waiting, for the healing and renewal of the world.

Such looking forward can be enriched by also looking backward, to the original goodness and continuing beauty of the created order. The ‘already’ helps us to imagine the ‘not yet’.

So, it is good to remember the story of creation during Advent, in the context of hope for a renewed and restored world. That is why this year’s VCS Advent Calendar offers a series of artworks and meditations on the gifts of creation, as the Bible celebrates them from Genesis to Revelation.

We live in a world that is far from what it should be, but, for Christians, Advent affirms that as God’s promise and presence came into the world in the coming of the Christ child, out of love for the world, so God will again do a new thing. It gives us a vision for a restored creation where God’s shalom, or peace, reigns.

The VCS Team, November 2024