“Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited” (Thomas Merton). Today (Advent) is the beginning of my New Year 2020. Over the next four weeks—and through the Twelve Days of Christmas—I will be open to a new “Advent” in my journey—a time in which Christ might come and be born “anew” in me. “For if Christ were born a thousand times in Galilee, it was all in vain until He is born in thee.” And it would all be in vain if he were not born in some new way in each of us with each passing day, month and year….thus Advent is always here.
Advent is a 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 and hills to be brought down;
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,
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.
“He comes to every tribe and race,
A Messenger of truth and grace:
With Peace He comes from God above
On earth to found His realm of love.”
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