ADVENT

The beginning of the Liturgical year.The time of Patience. Looking over the crowds last Friday, much of the Thanksgiving blessings seemed to have been focused on shopping.No ,no screed on folks shopping.It would be shameful to talk of blessings one day,then judge people for doing something the next[especially since I did some shopping online, and perhaps not everyone has that same privilege .I want to think about waiting,about the long slow painful history of the people of Israel,living, as Stan Hauerwas put it, the way Jesus meant for us, as aliens in the land.The patience of Advent,the slow breaking of light,the recollection ,the foundation we are building spiritually,these are ,for me, the hallmarks of Advent.More tomorrow