Day 1 GoHealth Advent Calendar 2025

To begin our Advent 2025 series, Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell provides a beautiful reflection on waiting as healing.

The GoHealth Advent journey shaped around a simple but profound truth: the healing is in the waiting. This season invites us to slow down, to listen, to hold space for hope, and to discover how God meets us—not in the rush, but in the pause.
Each day, return to this page to open a new window on the Advent calendar. Take a moment to pause, reflect, and be opened to a renewed way of seeing the world. Behind each door you’ll find a story, a prayer, a reflection or a short video—each one exploring how waiting can become a place of healing, honesty, courage and grace.

Our contributors include some of our favourite thinkers, poets and theologians:
The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell; Malcolm Guite; The Revd Rosemary Frew; Dr Shola Oladipo; and many others whose voices we’re keeping as joyful surprises.

This Advent journey is created for members of The GoHealth Community, but everyone is warmly invited to enjoy the first seven days for free. Before 8th December, simply join the community for £5 to access the full Advent calendar as well as our growing library of courses, resources and the community forum.

May this waiting—this holy slowing—be a place of profound hope, healing and renewal for us all.

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