Advent reminds us that the reconciliation of all things will happen through ordinary people in still, small, acts of justice, worship, and peace that seem to come out of nowhere. Acts that pull you upside down and set you right side up. Radical loving acts that give people from all nations a new story to live by... a new imagination for their world and their future. 

This is a story about a God with a ladder. And the idea of this story is not that we have to do special things or go to special places to get to God, because this God has this ladder… Jacob was no place special. And the promise God made to Jacob in this no place special… was… “I am with you.”