Advent thoughts
Dec. 1st, 2011 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mylodonWill be doing my usual contemplations through the Advent season, this year in tandem with the multi-talented ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nodbear, who'll be doing even days to my odd numbered.
Advent is the time we look to the coming of Jesus, both back to his birth in a stable and forwards to his coming (in what form we don't know) in the future.
But there's a sense in which he's never gone away. His hands are at work in the hands of those who dig survivors out of collapsed buildings after earthquakes, who look after people dying of AIDS, who send boxes of presents half way round the world so that children they've never met can have a something of their own. Anyone who does what they don't need to do, who goes the extra mile they don't have to walk, to make things better for somebody else.
nodbear, who'll be doing even days to my odd numbered. Advent is the time we look to the coming of Jesus, both back to his birth in a stable and forwards to his coming (in what form we don't know) in the future.
But there's a sense in which he's never gone away. His hands are at work in the hands of those who dig survivors out of collapsed buildings after earthquakes, who look after people dying of AIDS, who send boxes of presents half way round the world so that children they've never met can have a something of their own. Anyone who does what they don't need to do, who goes the extra mile they don't have to walk, to make things better for somebody else.
