Bring on the Adventure

Life is good. Life is strange. Life is a highway. Life is like a box of chocolates. Life is an adventure! We have these proverbs when it comes to describing the way we humans pass the time. They’re meant to be descriptive or advisory or both. For the coming weeks, I’d like to focus on adventure! Life is, life as an adventure—something unusual and something exciting.

As liturgical Christians, we celebrate this season of Advent. It’s upon us. It’s meant to be a season of anticipation of expectation—the expectation of Jesus being born to us again at Christmas. And, that’s important. While devoting ourselves during this time of Advent, we expect to arrive at Christmas Eve with the retelling of the story of a babe, wrapped in baby clothes, lying in a barn, surrounded by loving parents, a host of shepherds and any number of farm animals and angels. And, we’ll get there. That’s the destination of Advent—God en-fleshed.

And, if you’re anything like me, it’s easy to become preoccupied with the destination and miss the journey, the advent-ure while we’re on the road. We have four weeks! We have four weeks to pay attention to, to be mindful of what our lives look like while we’re waiting—what we do, how we act, what HAS to continue to happen, what we might miss if we’re only focused upon the future.

It’s my hope that we can devote ourselves to living deliberately during this time of expectation. I hope that the adventure of our preparation for Christmas becomes a joy all its own. Like any good advent-ure, I hope we’ll make some memories during this time, ones that we’ll share in the coming years. We’ll have a tool for you on Sunday to help with that. I’ll see you Sunday. Bring on the advent-ture!

Love,

Jimmy