Advent

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “Celebrating Advent means being able to wait. … Whoever does not know the austere blessedness of waiting — that is, of hopefully doing without — will never experience the full blessing of fulfillment.”

WAITING is not a  word I would use to describe the typical American's Christmas attitude.  It's more like GETTING.  I hope to slow down and remember the true meaning of Christmas during these next few weeks of Advent.

                                       (photo from Wikipedia website)