It can be difficult to begin the Christmas season in a world that is continually screeching at us through our infinite device sources with pain, violence, and hopelessness. I am old enough to remember life without media, the quietness of a world that consisted of our home, our church and our small town. With these realities in mind my lover and I began a habit several years ago to observe Advent as not only a preparation for Christmas but also as a rampart against the overwhelming tide of culture. It has worked. I want to share three sources of Advent that we practice in hopes that those of you who have a Christmas Faith and those who have a Christmas Holiday can both disembark this maddening coaster for a platform of peace.
We close every day sitting together with our dog Hounder, soaking up each other’s body warmth and listen to John Piper, look at NASA’s Hubble images of majestic beauty and then my lover and I, in our old broken voices that are out of tune, sing a Christmas song.
The sites are posted below. Happy Advent and a Merry beginning to Christmas.
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/prepare-the-way
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/12/2021-hubble-space-telescope-advent-calendar/620865/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7ySn-Swwc
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