Well it is fast approaching.  Or according to the retail stores it has arrived!  Yes, it blew by Halloween, is making a quick flyby of Thanksgiving and all the while the tinsel is hung and the trees are up throughout retail land.  Welcome once again to the extended version of the Christmas Season.   So let us go straight to the buying and selling at the Temple gates and oh by the way how about some pumpkin pie with that purchase?  I’m tired already and what’s this all about anyway?

Maybe we should start with Advent, the ancient Christian practice of waiting on Christ.  The word Advent means “coming” or “arrival.” The Season is focused on celebrating the first arrival of Jesus the Christ and the continued anticipation of the Lords’ second arrival in power.  It is a time which will renew and restore Creation to its’ rightful place in the Peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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