Advent

 I look back on the four weeks before Christmas, called “Advent.”  It means Coming.  I reflect now that it was not just about Jesus coming to be born in backyard shed, though it is that.  That alone does not change me.  What I see now is that every day is an Advent for me, being of service, spiritual reading, household tasks and work done well, are all ways in which this spiritual power that I call God in Christ, seeks to come to life in me. I might say, “I am too shabby, the wrong setting, full of sin.”  And so forth.  Well even if this is so, God came into a shabby manger in a shed.  It was good enough for God, so I guess maybe I am good enough for God.  And so are you if you give this Power half a chance.