December 2, 2022

“He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.” (Revelation 22:20)

Here is one of the many Mark Twain witticisms. "Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those."

Witty, and true to an extent. But that is without Jesus Christ in the equation. Or Advent. We can look at life without rose colored glasses, feel the pain of reality, and yet experience the Joy of knowing the One who has come to take away the sin of the world and who will come again when the wait is over.

Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

“Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (First Sunday of Advent – BCP)