Advent is the gift of time we are given for watching and waiting. For being stretched in expectation that comes from the contemplation for what God may be doing today or may yet do tomorrow. Advent has always been meant (well, at least until that last century) to be the quietest, least frenzied season of the year.
Everything in life requires some compromise and accommodation. I doubt if we could shut down the Christmas machine of our culture even if we wanted to. So, how about this: one day in the next three weeks of quiet and contemplation with all the “to-do lists” put in a drawer for the day. Too much? How about 20 minutes each day the rest of the month where you do nothing but quietly take a walk or stare out a window.
The end of all this is not with ourselves. It is that we be given time enough to contemplate our place in God’s world and in God’s purposes of love and justice so that, having considered such important values, we can act on them. We can be the love, the justice, the peace, the comfort for which our world is so desperately hungry.
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