Advent week 3
from John 1:10-13
“The purpose of our journey is not so much to dwell in ‘the place from which Christmas came,’ but to allow that place to dwell in us, to return to our own country with christened eyes, to look upon our everyday surroundings with a baptized imagination.” These words of G.K. Chesterton’s capture beautifully the purpose of our journey through the season of Advent. As we journey these for weeks through the opening of John’s Gospel, as we see Jesus through the eyes of His friend, may we not rush too quickly ahead to Christmas, rather may we allow the journey of Advent to prepare us, to stir in us hope…and to change us in our anticipation of Christ’s coming.
w/ Vern Collins