Advent Thoughts, #19
In thinking about the virtues of Christmas, I come to patience. Waiting. Hope. To me these three are inseparable, and are the close to the core of Christmas. The Jewish people waited in hope for a messiah. Mary waited for the birth. Simeon had been waiting in hope for a sign, to see the real Messiah. Patience is, in some ways, a fruit of the Holy Spirit. I heard a little poem the other day.
Patience is a virtue.
Catch it if you can.
It's seldom found in woman
and never found in man..
We are an impatient culture, childish people. The only cure to stress is to get of the merry-go-round of NOW, this instant. How many times have I cooked something wrong due to impatience. Everything, to be done right, takes longer than it takes, as a friend says.
Slow as Christmas, is a Southern expression. Yes, Christmas is slow. Occupy until he comes, but live in expectation, hope, waiting, uncertainty in certainty.
Patience is a virtue.
Catch it if you can.
It's seldom found in woman
and never found in man..
We are an impatient culture, childish people. The only cure to stress is to get of the merry-go-round of NOW, this instant. How many times have I cooked something wrong due to impatience. Everything, to be done right, takes longer than it takes, as a friend says.
Slow as Christmas, is a Southern expression. Yes, Christmas is slow. Occupy until he comes, but live in expectation, hope, waiting, uncertainty in certainty.
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