Today is the final day of Advent 2022. The end of our
annual Season of making ready for the unknown day when Jesus will return in
glory. Are we ready? That depends on where we choose to focus. Consider the
arrival of relatives for Christmas. We might know the date they’re due, but we
can never be certain of the hour. Will they be delayed, in traffic, by bad
weather? If we fixate on All That Must Be Done before they get here, then, no, we’ll
never be ready, never have quite enough time. Yet they come. Not in search of a
perfectly tidied and seasonally decorated home, but because, for all its
difficult challenges, family matters. Love compels us, in search of joy (however
fleeting), peace (even if it is a temporary truce), hope (for, so long as we
have each other…).
This Christmas, Christ comes again, perhaps not yet in
glory, but rehearsing the Day. Over and over.
This Christmas, may you know Love.
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