Monday, December 3, 2007

We wait for his return

Veronica Mitchell has a beautiful post about Advent. I loved this part:

Today is the first Sunday of Advent, during which we remember the long years before Jesus’s birth, and we prepare for him to be born again. The Christian calendar is a way of remembering, not as nostalgia, but as a celebration of God’s faithfulness in his saving acts, which have made us his family. In celebrating the holy days of the calendar, we defy our own loneliness.

Read the whole thing.

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