Advent

For an above- decent article on Advent, go here.

Here is an excerpt from the article that struck me in particular:
"I don't remember this opposition of Christmas and the Christmas season when I was young. When I was little—ah, the nostalgia of the childhood memoir—I always felt that the days right before Christmas were a time somehow out of time. Christmas Eve, especially, and the arrival of Christmas itself at midnight: The hours moved in ways different from their passage in ordinary time, and the sense of impending completion was somehow like a flavor even to the air we breathed."


The above quote strikes me because I have been thinking about how religious folk and non-religious folk think about time. Modern history is very linear. However, the Biblical and Christian view of time is that there are times that are "high times" which connect us in a mystical way with things that have happened either in the past or will happen in the future, or both. Modern understandings of time have been stripped of mystery, or their attachment to something or Someone beyond time. The above quote helps me to remember and to celebrate the high times, especially this Advent and Christmas. I encourage you to read the above quote again.

Grace and Peace,
Andrew