We are in a series called The Arrival talking about Advent, and I think it's been pretty cool because it kind of helps refocus and actually in many cases give us a perspective on Advent that you may or may not have had before.

Now, for me and my family, we have actually done Advent celebrations and the lighting of the candles for probably somewhere 16, 17 years now.

And it's always a great reflective moment to be able to

focus our hearts on God. Now, an interesting story came a few last week when my 13-year-old

daughter, now, Miss Brooklyn, had a very curious take on the Advent story. And so we were lighting the candles into an

Advent and she looks over at me and says something and I tell her, that is so funny. I got to share

that with the church. I was like, do you mind? And she said, hmm, on one condition, you show a picture

of me? And I was like, okay. And then she goes, wait, I get to pick it out.

So here is Ms. Brooklyn right here. Look at her. Isn't she sweet? Yeah, she's pretty sweet.

She's the one with the short curly hair in case you're wondering. She's so sweet. But here's

two more pictures of Brooklyn. She didn't say I couldn't show more, so you should

have read the fine print, baby girl. Look at it. Look at that center one right there. You see the

sass on that face? It's that face you need to think about as I tell this story. So she looks

at me and she says, so, Daddy, you know, during Advent, she goes, it would have been hard to have been Joseph, right? And I'm like, yeah, I mean, probably, yeah,

it probably would have been. She goes, oh, come on, mama walks in, but like, I'm pregnant,

but it's God, for real. And I'm like, okay, I'll give it to you. Yet that would have been a little

difficult, you know, and she goes, yeah. And then the angel comes to you, and then you get good with it, then you go to Bethlehem, and then three fellows show up at your door with gifts. That'd been suss?

I'd been like, that might have been a little suss, yes, that could have been.

She goes, you wouldn't have been like, he better not have any of your eyes.

I'm telling you right now.

I was like, girl, that is what Joseph thought. That is by any means. But it's an interesting little

funny perspective with Bible bites with Brooklyn. But if you want to focus in and see, what is the real Advent story? It is found in our scriptures and in Luke chapter 2. And today we're going to go to the scripture to determine what is Advent all

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