A Love Letter to the Future

Sunday, December 7, 2025 - Second Sunday of Advent

The Rev. Dr. Ben Huelskamp (he/they)

Executive Director, LOVEboldly

Queer Christian

Love never ends.

(1 Corinthians 13:8)

Assuming you haven’t skipped ahead—not calling you out, I’d do the same thing—you’re reading this devotion for the first time on December 7, 2025, almost one year after I wrote it on December 4, 2024. I imagine at least some of the bad things I was fearing have come true, but hopefully not all of them. Wherever and however, you’re reading this I hope you are warm, fed, comfortable, and loved.

I’ve been thinking about people throughout history who have sat in this same place where something has changed, someone’s been elected, the situation for war is ripe, or the world just feels like its spinning faster now.

Each person then has to find their own anchor; that place, that person, that community, that faith, that philosophy, or that passion which keeps them grounded. But no amount of grounding or putting our minds on other things can totally erase the worry and the fear of what we know is coming.

I can’t know yet what has happened in the time between me writing this devotion and you reading it, but I hope you can feel the love and the light I’m sending to you today. Remember, love never ends.

Reflection

How have you done this year?

Where do you find love today?

Action

Who could use some more love? Reach out, even if it’s only in words, and give them that love.