Starting Out

Advent began yesterday, but in some ways it feels as if it should begin today.  Why? Well, it's Monday, when most of us begin our work week.  Of course, thinking of Advent as 'work' suggests we may be missing the message of this season.  Advent shouldn't be something we do with heavy hearts.  It shouldn't be a burden to be borne or assignment to be completed.  Instead, it's an opportunity to reorient ourselves, to refresh our perspective, to make sense of what is going on around us.  Advent is the time to prepare ourselves for Jesus, not to run to and fro in a mad quest to complete our spiritual errands.

As we start our Advent, let's first get our bearings and make sure we're heading off in the right direction, the one which will take us to the infant in a manger.

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