Advent Chapter One - Leaving Home

 Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25; Luke 21:25-36 

As many of you know, I once owned an orchard. Apples, peaches, pears, cherries, even persimmons grew in my orchard. When a derecho, a horizontal tornado, came through, I lost a small apple tree completely, broken off level with the ground, and a large pie cherry tree went down. I cut that cherry tree off abou…