Advent Comes Again!

“Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited” (Thomas Merton).

Advent is the beginning of the new year 2019 for me.  Advent: what is it?  It is…for me…

A very special time—a time of promise:

    a time of preparation for the new about to happen,

    a time of new beginnings

Advent is a time of expectancy...a time of happenings: 

   annunciations are heard if ears are opened,   

   and  dreams are dreamed and guidance given

Advent is a time of giving birth to God:

    we carry God around with us and do not know it,

    Advent is a time for a new birth within  

Advent is a time of waiting:

    waiting for mountains to be brought down;

    hills to be brought low,

    for valleys to be lifted up and crooked places made straight.

Advent is a time of moving—a time of transition:

   not a movement backward, but forward,  

   moving all inhabitants of the world

   to a place we’ve never been before.

Advent is about newness—a time for the "New Things:”

    a season of receptivity and openness,

    a time of new vulnerability

Advent announces a Way—a time of new dreams:

    a time to sing our own song, dance our own dance,

    a time of searching and for finding

Advent is all of the above—it is kairos time:

    time to start anew, to begin again,

   Advent is the time to follow your star.