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The Christmas season is upon us and we find ourselves surrounded by symbols of light, love, and joy. Colored and twinkling lights illuminate our homes, hang from our roofs, and adorn our trees. And, in that light, we gather with our communities and our loved ones. While this is, in many ways, the...

In 2022, many of us anxiously wonder what world we are stepping into over the next few weeks.  There is the joy of Christmas.  There is, as well, fear around new waves of Covid about to make their rounds.  It makes the times, for many, strange.

With a smile, it is a forever task to flip our thinking away from Christmas just as a stand-alone day to celebrate, to a more life-giving view of advent as a call to the work.  Restated – advent then begins, not ends a story.

It may be that one of our largest challenges around the joy of the Advent season are “rehearsals.”  Here I am not speaking of rehearsals around plays or concerts, but of mental rehearsals of old, tired stories of hurt that we rehash endlessly.