ADVENT

The final Light is lit and now Christ is with us, has joined us this new Christmas day.  I met a young bum yesterday at a gas station who needed gas to go on his way to Alabama.  He was filthy, in body and in clothing, (like Christ finds us all) but kind.  I filled his can and told him Merry Christmas and I drove away.  I cried.  I don’t know how God can stand being above us but I surely don’t know how God could have stood to be with us.  We are so damaged.  Advent is a season of eventuality, Christ was with us but He went back home.  Advent reminds us that eventually He will come back but in the mean time we’re it, we are Christ with us even though we have to groan and weep under the fall, we are still it, His plan of Him being with us.  If you listen you can hear the groan.  Breezes don’t want to be tornados no more than humans want to be filthy and broke and we all groan in weeping when we are fallen during Christmas.   Here is Advent; make Christ’s coming to everyone and everything easier!!!  You do it.  You raise the valleys, you lower the mountains, you help make the paths straight even as you groan under the fall, groan in exaltation as you live, Come Lord Jesus! Come!