Joel 2:23-32
Psalm 122
2 Timothy 4:6-8,16-18
Luke 18:9-14
Troubled times, troubled people.
I have a confession to make. I have never developed any enthusiasm for my presumed role as the Advent police. Honestly, I don't care whether you put up your Christmas tree this weekend, or if you are humming along with the musak at Ray's.
I think it was my early exposure to the movie Mame. See, I grew up poor, the sometimes-hungry kind of poor. And that one year in the depths of the Great Depression, when Mame couldn't pay her staff, when the butcher cut off her credit and she couldn't buy groceries, when she declared, We need a little Christmas now! and they opened their presents early, I knew at a youngster's existential level exactly what that was about.
The heart needs what the heart needs. And God knows, we need a little Christmas now.
Psalm 122
2 Timothy 4:6-8,16-18
Luke 18:9-14
Troubled times, troubled people.
I have a confession to make. I have never developed any enthusiasm for my presumed role as the Advent police. Honestly, I don't care whether you put up your Christmas tree this weekend, or if you are humming along with the musak at Ray's.
I think it was my early exposure to the movie Mame. See, I grew up poor, the sometimes-hungry kind of poor. And that one year in the depths of the Great Depression, when Mame couldn't pay her staff, when the butcher cut off her credit and she couldn't buy groceries, when she declared, We need a little Christmas now! and they opened their presents early, I knew at a youngster's existential level exactly what that was about.
The heart needs what the heart needs. And God knows, we need a little Christmas now.
