Just thought I’d put some timely reminders out there for everyone as we head in to Christmas. It isn’t about retail mark downs.
Today is the first Sunday of Advent. For those of Christian background, this is where we start to prepare for the birth of Jesus. While this is a season of joy, it is also a penitential season – in other words, we’re supposed to, among all the shopping and parties, take heed for the fact that we are not altogether good people and that we do, indeed, need someone to come in to the world to save us.
And, Christian or not, all of us can surely afford to pause for a moment and consider what we’ve done this past year. There was that time when you didn’t suffer a fool gladly. There was that time you resented a family member for doing something. There was that friend you didn’t help. You passed a stranger in need, and didn’t do anything. ‘Tis the season to be jolly – but also the season to start consider how we will try to do better in the coming year.
This is what Isaiah, son of Amoz,
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
In days to come,
the mountain of the LORD’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain
and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it;
many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us climb the LORD’s mountain,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may instruct us in his ways,
and we may walk in his paths.”
For from Zion shall go forth instruction,
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations,
and impose terms on many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks;
one nation shall not raise the sword against another,
nor shall they train for war again.
O house of Jacob, come,
let us walk in the light of the Lord! – Isaiah 2:1-5
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