Adventurous Advent (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781936912827)

Advent is a time in which we strive to be awake. We train our eyes for the slightest glimmer of Christ's coming. We look for the emergence of a star on the horizon and the birth of something we cannot fully describe in our hearts and in the world. We live in a time of hope and anticipation: what we hope for is not yet here and we know that there is no guarantee that it will come. Still we dream of a holy adventure, and the possibility that a hovel houses a savior and a baby's cry ushers in an age of peace and planetary healing. Long before the modern phenomenon of Black Friday and the post-Halloween Christmas sales, Advent was a time of spiritual examination, characterized by solemnity and fasting. Today, in the days prior to Christmas, we seldom fast and, in fact, must try our hardest to remain healthy and sober amid the flurry of obligatory holiday parties, even in congregational contexts. Still, Advent is not all solemnity. A popular Christmas song of an earlier era proclaims, "We need a little Christmas, right this very moment."

Author: Bruce G. Epperly
ISBN-10: 1936912821
ISBN-13: 9781936912827
Publisher: Parson's Porch Books
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2013
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d