It begins as we celebrate it in the season of Advent. I suppose we should be in that state of anticipation always - anticipating His coming fully in us, inside us, in the Church, in the world. More acutely, though, we pay attention to it in these coming 4 weeks of Advent. If you haven't understood this season before, or any "season" on the Church calendar, please try to make a point of entering into it this year. Allow this whole time between now and Christmas be an intentional setting apart of time, of looking for Him in all things, of waiting. Get rid of that fear of "religion" and step into what it was meant to be. Everything can become a dead work, but only if you let it be that. OK, enough from me.
"Then, if we cannot as yet think alike in all things, at least we may love alike. Herein we cannot possibly do amiss." John Wesley
"Keep your eyes on the crucifix, for Jesus without the cross
is a man without a mission, and the cross without Jesus
is a burden without a reliever." Fulton J. Sheen
"...I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be
completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self." Henri Nouwen
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